Mormon Literature Database - The Woman's Exponent

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The Woman's Exponent
: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,


Genre:		Periodical

Annotations:
This important organ for women's issues in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries featured much literary content. Founded in 1872 by Louisa Lula Greene, The Woman's Exponent was said to have been the first "permanent" woman's magazine west of the Mississippi and second in the nation after the Boston Woman's Journal (see this article by Leonard Arrington). Greene's successor as editor was the famous Emmeline B. Wells, who edited the journal for more than 40 years. The Woman's Exponent was discontinued in 1914, but has been revived in the twentieth century as Exponent II, an independent periodical for Mormon women and women's issues. See the overview of the original periodical by Sherilyn Cox listed below.

Dates Spanned in work:
1872-1914

HBLL Call No: Spec. Coll. M205.1 W84

This publication includes:
Woman's Sphere by Lu Dalton 2 (December 15, 1873): 106	Poetry
Green Street by Josephine Spencer 21 (December 1892): 81	Poetry
Woman by Lu Dalton 21 (January 15, 1893): 107	Poetry
A Mother's Prayer by Nina Eckart 27 (April 1, 1899): 123	Poetry
Hour by Josephine Spencer 28 (June 1899): 1	Poetry
Our Beloved Mother Zina D. H. Young by Ruth May Fox 30 (October 1901): 35	Poetry
To Aunt Em by Josephine Spencer 35 (February 1907): 51	Poetry
To Aunt Em by Josephine Spencer 36 (February 1908): 51	Poetry
Spencer Tree by Josephine Spencer 37 (October 1908): 17	Poetry

Reviewed In:
The Woman's Exponent: Forty-two Years of Speaking for Women by Sherilyn Cox Bennion