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157: 195:, published by Mrs. J. R. Coston, makes its advent to satisfy the common desire among us for an illustrated journal of our own ladies. The injury of the absence of the cultivating influence which attaches to a purely published, illustrated journal devoted to the loving interests of our homes, and to the weal of our daughters, was felt by me when a girl, and is recognized by me now when a woman. Knowing that this injury of absence could only be overcome by the presence of such a journal, without measuring the intellectual ability required, we have published 31: 326: 305: 410: 184:, the Right Rev. J. M. Brown officiating. The couple had two children, the older, a girl named Julia R., and the younger, a boy named, W. H. Coston. Mr. Coston was the author of "A Freeman and Yet a Slave." 140:. She was given the name "Ringwood" because of a promise her father made to her mother; if their first-born were a girl, she would be named after the farm. She was brought to live in 476: 491: 451: 436: 486: 471: 456: 481: 446: 391: 364: 285: 145: 441: 176:, she found time and received both assistance and encouragement to continue her studies. In the spring of 1886, she married Rev. 60: 144:
as an infant. Until her mother's failing health caused her to leave school and serve as the family breadwinner, Coston attended
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As a girl, Coston reportedly longed to see a images and stories of people of color in magazines, leading her to establish
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Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture that Made Them
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William Hilary Coston (left), Julia Ringwood Coston (right), and their children
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
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Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Appiah, Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (16 March 2005).
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Coston was born on the Ringwood Farm in the town of
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publisher and magazine editor. In 1891, she founded
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Julia Ringwood Balch
Warrenton, Virginia
Washington, District of Columbia
African American
Warrenton, Virginia
Washington, D.C.
public schools

governess
general
United States Army
William Hilary Coston
Yale University
Majors 1893
Appiah & Gates 2005
Heinemann 1996



Scruggs 1893
Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture that Made Them
33
ISBN
978-0-8135-3425-1
public domain
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities
public domain
Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
ISBN

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