In the United States the list of women's fashion papers, with their women editors and correspondents, is numerous and important. For fourteen years _Harper's Bazaar_ has been ably edited by Mary L. Booth; other papers of similar character are both owned and edited by women. _Madame Demorest's Monthly_, a paper that originated the vast pattern business which has extended its ramifications into every part of the country and given employment to thousands of women. As illustrative of woman's continuity of purpose in newspaper work, we may mention the fact that for fifteen years Fanny Fern did not fail to have an article in readiness each week for the _Ledger_, and for twenty years Jennie June (Mrs. Croly) has edited _Demorest's Monthly_ and contributed to many other papers throughout the United States. Mary Mapes Dodge has edited the _St. Nicholas_ the past eight years. So important a place do women writers hold, _Harper's Monthly_ asserts, that the exceptionally large prices are paid to women contributors. The spiciest critics, reporters, and correspondents to-day, are women--Grace Greenwood, Louise Chandler Moulton, Mary Clemmer. Laura C. Holloway is upon the editorial staff of the Brooklyn _Eagle_. The New York _Times_ boasts a woman (Midi Morgan) cattle reporter, one of the best judges of stock in the country. In some papers, over their own names, women edit columns on special subjects, and fill important positions on journals owned and edited by men. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert edits "The Woman's Kingdom" in the _Inter-Ocean_, one of the leading dailies of Chicago. Mary Forney Weigley edits a social department in her father's--John W. Forney--paper, the _Progress_, in Philadelphia. The political columns of many papers are prepared by women, men often receiving the credit. Among the best editorials in the New York _Tribune_, from Margaret Fuller to Lucia Gilbert Calhoun, have been from the pens of women. If the proverb that "the pen is mightier than the sword" be true, woman's skill and force in using this mightier weapon must soon change the destinies of the world. CHAPTER III. THE WORLD'S ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, LONDON, JUNE 12, 1840. Individualism rather than Authority--Personal appearance of Abolitionists--Clerical attempt to silence Woman--Double battle against the tyranny of sex and color--Bigoted Abolitionists--James G. Birney likes freedom on a Southern plantation, but not at his own fireside--John Bull never dreamt that Woman would answer his call--The venerable Thomas Clarkson received by the Convention standing--Lengthy debate on "Female" delegates--The "Females" rejected--William Lloyd Garrison refused to sit in the Convention.