Young Woman's Journal was an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1897 and 1929. It was an official periodical of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association (YLMIA), then the LDS Church's organization for adolescent females.
Young Woman's Journal was founded in 1889 by Susa Young Gates, a volunteer worker within the YLMIA. Throughout its history, the periodical was edited by the general leadership board of the YLMIA under the direction of the organization's general presidency and published monthly. In 1929, the magazine was absorbed by the Improvement Era, an official publication of the YLMIA and the church's equivalent organization for male adolescents.
The journal included messages from the MIA conferences, scriptural quotations, a plethora of short stories, recipes, meeting schedules, and pieces about morals, clothing, etc. Unlike current publications of the LDS Church, the Young Woman's Journal was subsidized by advertisements carried in the magazine.
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“A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.”
—Jane Harrison (1850–1928)
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—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
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—Frances Burney (1752–1840)