least as far back as 1815 when Metternich instructed " la librairie
Herder," in Freiburg im Breisgau, to publish a journal “ à l'inten tion de l'armée autrichienne qui marchait sur Paris. Herder installa ad hoc une imprimerie de campagne dont sortirent,
chemin faisant, les exemplaires d 'une Deutsche Feldzeitung.” 71 During the war in the Transvaal two journals were published for the troops, “ un petit journal amusant la Lyre, rendit moins longues les heures des assiégés de Lady Smith ,” and The Friend. The latter was begun in March , 1900 , at the request of Lord Roberts for the entertainment and the information of the troops
at Bloemfontein , and was in charge of several well-known young writers.72
The interests of women were long assumed to be peculiar, apart from the interests of the world in general, and consequently to demand journals especially for them . But here as elsewhere
women came quickly to develop newspapers owned , edited , and published by themselves and these continued until the weakening of the artificial barriers that had separated the interests of men and women , and new alignments have ranged together all having
a common cause.73 Madame Adam in La Nouvelle Revue has well shown that a common cause unites the interests of men and 71 C . Rieben , “ Les Journaux et la guerre,” Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse , November, December, 1919 , 96 : 241 – 258, 408 - 428 . 7 Julian Ralph , War's Brighter Side, pp. 1 - 14. The volume gives a history of the paper and includes a number of the contributionsmade to it . 73 One of the earliest women editors was Anne Royall whose Life and
Times has recently been written by Sarah H . Porter . Mrs. Royall bought a second hand printing press, hired a printer , " adopted the editorial “We' and with a full set of principles on hand began her journalistic career." She published in Washington the first number of Paul Pry, December 3 ,
1831, and the last number November 19 , 1836. It was followed at once by The Huntress that continued from December 2 , 1836 to July 2 , 1854. – Life and Times, pp . 146 – 191, 223 - 226 .
Her editorial policy was indicated in her refusal to print a personal scandal concerning a man prominent in the church , in part because “ it is
against a private man . Public men are fair game.” P . 150. D . C . Bloomer in The Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer gives a full
account of the work of Mrs. Bloomer who owned , edited and published The Lily , devoted to the interests of women . Its first number appeared January 1, 1849.
The Woman 's Journal under Lucy Stone and Henry B . Blackwell began
in 1870 and was devoted especially to securing suffrage for women . The
greater its success in advocating this cause the more inevitably it ulti mately declined . When the goal was practically reached it was merged with The Woman Citizen .
