The Heathen Woman's Friend

The Heathen Woman's Friend;
later, Woman’s Missionary Friend
Type Monthly newspaper
Owner(s) Methodist Episcopal Church
Founded 1869-1940

The Heathen Woman's Friend (Woman’s Missionary Friend, 1896-1940) was a Christian women's monthly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Heathen Woman's Friend was established in June 1869, and published in Boston by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[1] Subscriptions ranged from 3,500 in 1869, to 21,000 in 1870, and 92,591 in 1929.[2] During the first five years of publication, the paper focused primarily on India and China.[3] The German language edition, Heiden Frauen Freund, was established in 1885. Harriet Merrick Warren was the periodical's first editor and Louise Manning Hodgkins took over in 1893.[4] The publication was renamed in 1896 to Woman’s Missionary Friend.[5]

References

  1. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 1891, p. 96.
  2. Zaccarini 2001, p. 45.
  3. Pruitt 2005, p. 177.
  4. Cassidy, Cheryl M. (2006). "Bringing the "New Woman" to the Mission Site: Louise Manning Hodgkins and the Heathen Woman's Friend". American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography. Project MUSE. 16 (2): 172–199. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. Campbell, Barbara E. (2 March 2015). "That Handful of Women". United Methodist Women. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

Bibliography

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