The Lilly the Lilly Womens Fashion 1849

The Lily, the get-go newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894).

Published in Seneca Falls, New York and priced at 50 cents a year, the newspaper began as a temperance journal for "home distribution" among members of the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society, which had formed in 1848.

Amelia Bloomer

Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were considered unseemly, writing was the best style for women to work for reform. The newspaper encountered a number of early obstacles and the Society'southward enthusiasm died out, only Bloomer felt a commitment to publish and causeless full responsibility for editing and publishing the paper.

Originally, the title page had the legend "Published by a committee of ladies", but afterward 1850 only Bloomer's proper name appeared on the masthead.

Although women'south exclusion from membership in temperance societies and other reform activities was the main forcefulness behind the initial publication of The Lily, information technology was not at first a radical paper, its editorial opinion conforming to the emerging stereotype of women as "defenders of the home."

In the first event, Bloomer wrote:

Information technology is woman that speaks through The Lily…Intemperance is the bully foe to her peace and happiness. Information technology is that higher up all that has fabricated her Domicile desolate and beggared her offspring… Surely, she has the right to wield her pen for its Suppression. Surely, she may without throwing aside the modest refinements which so much become her sexual activity, use her influence to lead her swain mortals from the destroyer's path.

The Lily always maintained its focus on temperance. Fillers oft told horror stories almost the effects of alcohol. For example, the May, 1849 issue noted, "A human when drunk fell into a kettle of boiling alkali at Liverpool, Onondaga Co. and was scalded to expiry." Simply gradually the paper began to include articles about other subjects of involvement to women, many from the pen of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, writing under the pseudonym "sunflower." Her earliest manufactures dealt with temperance, changeable and instruction, but she before long turned to the outcome of women'south rights, writing most laws unfair to women and demanding change.

Bloomer Suit (1850s)

Bloomer was greatly influenced by Stanton and gradually became a catechumen to the crusade of women's rights. She also became interested in dress reform, advocating that women wear the outfit that came to be known every bit the "Bloomer costume." Stanton and others copied a knee-length clothes with pants worn past Elizabeth Smith Miller of Geneva, New York. Although Bloomer refused to take credit for inventing the pants-and-tunic outfit, her proper noun became associated with it because she wrote articles about the unusual dress, printed illustrations in The Lily and wore the costume herself.

The circulation of The Lily rose from 500 per month to four,000 per month considering of the clothes reform controversy. At the end of 1853, the Bloomers moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where Amelia Bloomer continued to edit The Lily, which by and so had a national circulation of over 6,000. Bloomer sold The Lily in 1854 to Mary Birdsall because she and her husband, Dexter were moving to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where no facilities for publishing the paper were available.

She remained a contributing editor for the two years The Lily survived after she sold it. The Lily published its terminal result Dec 15, 1856.

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Notes

The Lily: A Temperance and Abolitionist Newspaper, spans 1849 to 1856.

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