The Una was one of the first feminist periodicals in the United States to be owned, written and edited entirely by women, with a particular focus on woman suffrage and women’s rights.
Launched in Providence, Rhode Island in February 1853 by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, the publication later moved to Boston. The first issue carried the motto “Out of great heart of nature seek we truth”, signalling its editors’ conviction that women’s equality was a natural principle rather than a radical invention. At a time when few women controlled their own platforms in print media, The Una offered a rare space for female writers and activists to shape public conversation around suffrage, education, property rights and social reform. The periodical belonged to the first wave of American feminist journalism that preceded the better-known suffrage campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
