National League of American Pen Women

The National League of American Pen Women, Inc. (NLAPW) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization for women.^[1]

National League of American Pen Women headquarters in Washington, D.C.

History

The first meeting of the League of American Pen Women was organized in 1897 by Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue, a writer for newspapers in Washington D.C. and Boston. Together with Margaret Sullivan Burke and Anna Sanborn Hamilton they established a "progressive press union" for the women writers of Washington."^[2]

Seventeen women joined them at first, professional credentials were required for membership and the ladies determined that Pen Women should always be paid for their work. By September 1898, members were over fifty members "from Maine to Texas, from New York to California."^[2]

In 1921, with 5,000 members,^[3] Mrs. William Atherton du Puy (née Ada Lee Orme^[4] also Mrs. Ada Lee Orme du Puy),^[3] was National President (for two years^[5]) of the League of American Pen Women, and the association became The National League of American Pen Women with thirty-five local branches, in Syracuse, NY, Tampa, Denver,^[6] Minnesota, and various states.^[2]

William Atherton du Puy^[7] (1876-1941) was a New York Times reporter,^[8] author,^[9][10][11] and "press agent" of Ray Lyman Wilbur as United States Secretary of the Interior.^[12][13] and named Hooverball as Boone-ball.^[14][15]

The League's headquarters are located in the historic Pen Arts Building and Art Museum in the DuPont Circle area of Washington.^[2]

Notable members

 

Marian Adele Longfellow O'Donoghue, from an 1896 publication

• Daisy Kessler Biermann^[16]
• Amy Ella Blanchard^[17]
• Gail Horton Calmerton^[16]
• Sarah Johnson Cocke^[18]
• Margaret Wootten Collier^[19]
• Edith Daley^[16]
• Bernice C. Downing^[16]
• Caroline B. Eager^[16]
• Alice Henson Ernst^[20]
• Inglis Fletcher^[16]
• May Futrelle^[21]
• Gladys Goldstein^[22]
• Jeanette Lawrence^[16]
• Nancy A. Leatherwood^[16]
• Ada Jordan Pray^[16]
• Edith Daggett Rockwood^[16]
• Vingie E. Roe^[16]
• Eleanor Roosevelt^[2]
• Geneve L. A. Shaffer^[16]
• Lura Eugenie Brown Smith^[23][24]
• Margaret McClure Stitt
• Grace Hyde Trine^[25][26]
• An-Ming Wang
• Elenor Yorke
• Zitkala-Sa

References

1. Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper (2000). "National League of American Pen Women, 1897–Present". In Burt, Elizabeth V. (ed.). Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 146–152. ISBN 978-0-313-30661-7.
2. "The Rise of Pen Women – 1897". Retrieved September 6, 2017.
3. "LET GIRLS SMOKE, MRS.DUPUY'S PLEA; Penwomen's President Rises in Defense of Young Thing Who 'Parks Corsets' Before Dance. MRS.GLYN WRONG, SHE SAYS Declares Short-Skirt Girl of Today Who Goes to "Petting Parties" Is All She Should Be. (Published 1921)". The New York Times. October 15, 1921. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
4. • "William Atherton DuPuy 6 January 1876–10 August 1941 • 94S4-DSG". ancestors.FamilySearch.org. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
   • "Ada Lee Orme". Public Member Stories. Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
5. "Women Writers League has Jubilee". Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests. Fourth Estate Publishing Company. 1922. Retrieved August 16, 2023. via Google Books
6. "Denver Pen Women". Denver Pen Women .org. December 21, 2020. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
7. Lawrence, Alberta (1927). Who's who Among North American Authors. Golden Syndicate Publishing Company. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
8. • du Puy, William Atherton (September 26, 1926). "INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL WILL REPEL BY ODOR; Government Chemists Have Devised a "Complex Oil Compound" That Will Make the Bootlegger's Task More Difficult -- Believe It Cannot Be Extracted (Published 1926)". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
   • "WINTER MAGIC IN SUMMER HAUNTS (Published 1933)". February 19, 1933. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
   • "SCIENCE INVADES THE ATOM'S REALM; LEARNS AMAZING SECRETS (Published 1923)". October 21, 1923. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
   • "FORTUNE AWAITS AN INDIAN GIRL; Washington Bureau Is Searching for Maud Lee Mudd, Who Has Failed to Claim Her Large Income (Published 1926)". November 21, 1926. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
9. Du Puy, William Atherton (1914). Uncle Sam's Modern Miracles: His Gigantic Tasks that Benefit Humanity. Frederick A. Stokes.
10. Du Puy, William Atherton (1927). Money. D.C. Heath.
11. "Books by DuPuy, William Atherton (sorted by popularity)". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
12. Wilbur, Ray Lyman; Du Puy, William Atherton (1931). Conservation in the Department of the Interior.
13. Du Puy, William Atherton (1932). Hawaii and Its Race Problem. U.S. Government Printing Office: United States Department of the Interior.
14. THOMAS, ROBERT McG. Jr.; JACOBS, BARRY (August 8, 1988). "Sports World Specials; Hoover's Legacy". Retrieved August 16, 2023.
15. Baylor, Kandi (July 30, 2008). "Hooverball gets 4th court, new location and exhibition games". West Branch Times. West Branch, Iowa. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
16. Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A. (1928). Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America. Los Angeles: Publishers Press. Retrieved August 6, 2017.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
17. "Mrs. A. E. Blanchard - 10 Jul 1926, Sat • Page 19". The Philadelphia Inquirer: 19. 1926. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
18. History of Virginia. Vol. 5 (Public domain ed.). American historical Society. 1924. p. 508. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
19. Georgia. Department of Archives and History (1926). "Collier, Mrs. Margaret Wootten (Mrs. Bryan Wells)". Georgia Women of 1926. Georgia Department of Archives and History. p. 23. OCLC 25809880.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
20. "Eugene Pen Women Fete New Members at Coffee Today at E. R. Pilgrim Home". The Eugene Guard. February 20, 1955. p. 32. Retrieved September 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
21. "Report of May Futrelle, National Chairman of Copyright, National League of American Pen Women". International Copyright Convention. Hearings Before a Subcommittee. United States Congress. 1941. pp. 186–187. Retrieved September 16, 2021 – via Google Books.
22. "Mrs. Johnson Heads Penwoman's Group". Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. May 22, 1948. p. 8.
23. "The League of American Pen Women". Evening Star. May 25, 1919. p. 52. Retrieved December 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
24. "An enthusiastic meeting of the League of American Pen Women". The Washington Post. December 11, 1910. p. 112. Retrieved December 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
25. Lyons, Louis S.; Wilson, Josephine (1922). Who's who Among the Women of California: An Annual Devoted to the Representative Women of California, with an Authoritative Review of Their Activities in Civic, Social, Athletic, Philanthropic, Art and Music, Literary and Dramatic Circles ... Security Publishing Company. pp. 15, 98, 605. Retrieved June 5, 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
26. "Who's Who in World of Women's Clubs". San Francisco Examiner. October 30, 1921. p. 34. Retrieved June 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.