1. The purpose of the suffrage press as a whole and of individual papers is discussed at length in Martha M. Solomon's A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840–1910 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1991), 3.
2. Agnes Ryan, The Torch Bearer: A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement (Boston: Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, 1916), 15.