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Rh while absent on her lecturing tours, she constantly forwarded spicy, thoughtful, editorial articles for her paper, the New Harmony Gazette. Robert Dale Owen was her faithful coadjutor in editing this and other papers. These two were co-laborers for years, first on the New Harmony Gazette, then on the Free Exguirer, published at first in New Harmony, afterward in New York city, and Colonel Forney says: "She was also the author, in company with Robert Dale Owen, of certain popular tracts.” John Humphrey Noyes, in his "History of American Socialisms," calls her “the spiritual helpmate and better half of Owen,” and adds: “Our impression is that not only was she the leading woman of the communistic movement of that period, but that she had a very important agency in starting two other movements, which have had far greater suceess, and are at this moment strong in public favor — viz., Anti-Slavery and Woman's Rights. She was, indeed, the pioneer of the strong-minded women.”