Lucy Rose Mallory ( born Lucy Rose Mallory ; February 14, 1846 - 1920 ) is an American publicist, publisher and enlightener. The daughter of Aaron Rose (Rose, English Aaron Rose , 1813 - 1899 ), who came from a family of German Jews and founded in the mid 1850s. Roseburg city in Oregon .
Lucy's mother died at her birth, and the stepmother, who appeared when the girl was a little over a year old, according to the writer's recollections, treated her with amazing cruelty. In childhood, Lucy Rose played with the children of the Indians, gaining as a result of this conversation a love of nature and manual labor, a mystical view of things, and also becoming a convinced vegetarian . At age 14, in 1860 , through a passionate love of childhood, she married her school teacher, Rufus Mallory ( 1831 - 1914 ), later an Oregon politician, deputy of the House of Representatives of the US Congress in 1867 - 1869 . Together with her husband, Lucy Mallory moved to the state capital city of Salem .
In 1874 , she opened a school in Salem for 45 children - young blacks and mulattos, who refused to study in the city’s educational institutions.
In 1886 she founded two newspapers - World's Advance Thought and The Universal Republic, each with 8 pages; in fact, it was a dual edition with two differently titled parts. On the pages of both publications, Mallory promoted equal rights for women and national minorities, civil liberties and initiatives, diverse humanistic ideas - down to a single monetary system and a single language for all of humanity. A special schedule was published in newspapers, according to which readers in various places could at the same time concentrate their psychic energy, so that with a single effort they could wish for one or another progressive change in the world. The circulation of publications did not exceed 3,000 copies, however, according to later researchers, its influence on thinking intellectuals was quite large. Mallory's publishing business continued until 1918 , when she, after the death of her husband and son, moved to San Jose, California .
Lucy Mallory and Leo Tolstoy
Mallory's Worlds Advance Thought was regularly sent to Russia by Leo Tolstoy . Lucy Mallory was in frequent correspondence with the writer. According to Pavel Ivanovich Biryukov, a biographer of Tolstoy: Lucy Malory is “a journalist from the US state of Oregon, an American woman who is outstanding in her intelligence and moral qualities.” Excerpts from Mallory's articles were posted by Tolstoy in Reading Circle. “It will be amazing,” said Tolstoy, “when Lucy Malori, an unknown person, will often come across in the Reading Circle next to Kant and others ...”