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Moreover, she established the first woman's rights paper that was ever published in the United States, "The Una," in January 1852 (Small pp). Stanton remarked that it was obvious from this paper that the leaders of the movement understood all the bearing of this question had followed the truth in all directions with boldness and considered all of woman's social and political wrongs (Small pp).
Although relatively unknown today, Paulina Wright Davis was one of the founding mother of the woman's moment and was in many instances more of a major contributor than many of the familiar names associated with the women's movement such as Stanton, Abby Kelley Foster, and Lucy Stone (Small pp). Paulina had insisted that the key to understanding why she and the other founding mothers were "roused" to "do and dare" was their frustration with that "unwritten code, universal and cruel as the laws of Draco and so subtle that, entering everywhere, they weigh most heavily where least seen" (Small pp).
In a letter addressed to Paulina, November 2, 1850, author Caroline Wells Dall thanks her for her convention address and her work, and writes "In every large city, there is a class of women, whose existence is a terror and reproach to the land in which they are born; whose name no modest woman is supposed to know; whose very breath is thought to poison the air of the sanctuary' (Caroline pp)
Although Paulina never gave birth to any children, she did adopt several sons and daughters, several in early infancy (Paulina1 pp). It is said that she had an "unusual sympathy and attraction for young people," and possessed great tenderness for the helpless and innocent, and that "motherless children, disappointed youth, and unfortunate women have ever found a shelter in her hospitable house" (Paulina1 pp).
Due to a delicate health condition, Paulina visited Europe for the first time in 1859, spending a year traveling in France, Italy, Austria, and Germany (Paulina1 pp). After spending a year visiting galleries and studying art, she returned home with renewed enthusiasm for her...
One of her favorite ideas which she often proposed was a Woman's Congress to discuss all the question relating to the political and social life in the United States (Paulina1 pp). She wanted to have a "body of wise, mature women meet every year in Washington" during the same time that the Congress convenes, to consider the national questions that "occupy popular thought, and demand prompt actions" (Paulina1 pp). She particularly wanted to present these issues in their moral bearings and relations while the 'representatives discuss them from a material and statistical point-of-view" (Paulina1 pp).
Paulina visited Europe again in 1871, accompanied by her niece and adopted daughter (Paulina1 pp). This time she spent two years abroad traveling and devoting herself to art (Paulina1 pp). She took lessons from Carl Marks in Florence and spent the majority of her time in Julian's life school, which was the only school during that time that allowed women to study (Paulina1 pp).
By the time she returned to the United States, the disease that had been threatening her life for years, rheumatic gout, began to overcome her health and she became confined to her room, often unable to walk (Paulina1 pp). During her last days, she remarked, "How petty the ridicule and persecution we have passed through, that seemed so grievous at the time, now appear, compared with the magnitude of the revolution we have inaugurated" (Paulina pp).
Works Cited
Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall to Paulina Wright Davis
http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/cwh_dall_to_pw_davis.html
Small Group Projects. http://www.assumption.edu/whw/old/Workshop.html
Davis, Paulina Kellogg Wright
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Davis_Paulina_Kellogg_Wright.html
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=183
Paulina1 Kellogg Wright Davis
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2002/p_davis.html
Works Cited
Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall to Paulina Wright Davis
http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/cwh_dall_to_pw_davis.html
Small Group Projects. http://www.assumption.edu/whw/old/Workshop.html
Davis, Paulina Kellogg Wright
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Davis_Paulina_Kellogg_Wright.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=183
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2002/p_davis.html
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