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The '''National League of American Pen Women''', Inc. (NLAPW) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization for women. The '''National League of American Pen Women''', Inc. ('''NLAPW''') is a not-for-profit ] membership organization for women.<ref name="Gottlieb2000">{{cite book|first=Agnes Hooper|last=Gottlieb|editor-first=Elizabeth V. |editor-last=Burt|title=Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfj4PW607UYC&pg=PA146|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30661-7|pages=146–152|chapter=National League of American Pen Women, 1897–Present}}</ref>


==History== ==History==
The first meeting of The League of American Pen Women was organized in 1897 by ], a writer for newspapers in Washington D.C. and Boston. Together with ] and ] they established a "progressive press union" for the women writers of Washington. The first meeting of the '''League of American Pen Women''' was organized in 1897 by ], a writer for newspapers in Washington D.C. and Boston. Together with ] and ] they established a "progressive press union" for the women writers of Washington."<ref name="Rise" />
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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." 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."<ref name="Rise" />
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{{anchor|Mrs. William Atherton du Puy}}In 1921, with 5,000 members,<ref name="nytimes/1921/mrsdupuys-penwomens-president"/> Mrs. William Atherton du Puy (née Ada Lee Orme<ref name="ancestors.familysearch/94S4-DSG">
In 1921 the association became The National League of American Pen Women with thirty-five local branches in various states.
*{{cite web |title=William Atherton DuPuy 6 January 1876–10 August 1941 • 94S4-DSG |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/94S4-DSG/william-atherton-dupuy-1876-1941 |website=ancestors.FamilySearch.org |access-date=17 August 2023}}
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*<!-- <ref name="ancestry/1095/Ada-Lee-Orme"> -->{{cite web |title=Ada Lee Orme |url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1095/?name=Ada+Lee_Orme&name_x=1_1 |website=Public Member Stories |publisher=Ancestry.com |access-date=17 August 2023}}


</ref> also Mrs. Ada Lee Orme du Puy),<!-- "William Atherton Du Puy" "League of American Pen Women" --><ref name="nytimes/1921/mrsdupuys-penwomens-president">{{cite news |title=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) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/10/15/archives/let-girls-smoke-mrsdupuys-plea-penwomens-president-rises-in-defense.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=15 October 1921 |language=en}}</ref> was National President (for two years<ref name="Fourth-Estate/1922/League-Jubilee">{{cite news |title=Women Writers League has Jubilee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWZeEzUNZw0C&dq=%22William+Atherton+Du+Puy%22&pg=RA15-PA9 |access-date=16 August 2023 |work=Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests |publisher=Fourth Estate Publishing Company |date=1922 |language=en |quote=via Google Books}}</ref>) 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,<!-- https://www.cnybranchofnlapw.com/ --> Tampa,<!-- https://www.tampapenwomen.com/ --> ],<ref name="denverpenwomen">{{cite web |title=Denver Pen Women |url=https://www.denverpenwomen.org/ |website=Denver Pen Women .org |access-date=16 August 2023 |date=21 December 2020}}</ref> Minnesota,<!-- https://www.penwomenminnesota.org/ --> and various states.<ref name="Rise" />
⚫ The League's headquarters are located in the historic Pen Arts Building and Art Museum in the DuPont Circle area of Washington.

<ref name="Rise">{{cite web|title=The Rise of Pen Women – 1897|url=http://www.nlapw.org/history/|accessdate=6 September 2017}}</ref>
{{anchor|William Atherton du Puy}}William Atherton du Puy<ref name="Who-Authors/267/WAdP">{{cite book |last1=Lawrence |first1=Alberta |title=Who's who Among North American Authors |date=1927 |publisher=Golden Syndicate Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISoNAAAAIAAJ&dq=William+Atherton&pg=PA267 |access-date=17 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref> (1876-1941) was a ] reporter,<ref name="du-Puy/NY-T">
*{{cite news |last1=du Puy |first1=William Atherton |title=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) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/09/26/archives/industrial-alcohol-will-repel-by-odor-government-chemists-have.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=26 September 1926 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |title=WINTER MAGIC IN SUMMER HAUNTS (Published 1933) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/19/archives/winter-magic-in-summer-haunts.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |date=19 February 1933 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |title=SCIENCE INVADES THE ATOM'S REALM; LEARNS AMAZING SECRETS (Published 1923) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/10/21/archives/science-invades-the-atoms-realm-learns-amazing-secrets.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |date=21 October 1923 |language=en}}
*{{cite news |title=FORTUNE AWAITS AN INDIAN GIRL; Washington Bureau Is Searching for Maud Lee Mudd, Who Has Failed to Claim Her Large Income (Published 1926) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/11/21/archives/fortune-awaits-an-indian-girl-washington-bureau-is-searching-for.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |date=21 November 1926 |language=en}}
</ref> author,<ref name="Du-Puy/1914/Uncle-Sam">{{cite book |last1=Du Puy |first1=William Atherton |title=Uncle Sam's Modern Miracles: His Gigantic Tasks that Benefit Humanity |date=1914 |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QglIAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Du-Puy/1927/Money">{{cite book |last1=Du Puy |first1=William Atherton |title=Money |date=1927 |publisher=D.C. Heath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgoNAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref name="gutenberg.org/author/43306">{{cite web |title=Books by DuPuy, William Atherton (sorted by popularity) |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43306 |website=] |access-date=16 August 2023}}</ref> and "press agent" of ] as ].<ref name="Wilbur-Du-Puy-1931">{{cite book |last1=Wilbur |first1=Ray Lyman |author1-link=Ray Lyman Wilbur |last2=Du Puy |first2=William Atherton |title=Conservation in the Department of the Interior |date=1931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trfRSAAACAAJ |language=en}}<!-- A major Depression era report which focuses upon Dr. Wilbur's interests in the welfare of Native Americans, the health of children, and proper management of America's energy resources (oil and natural gas conservation , the Hoover Dam project, etc.). --></ref><ref name="Du-Puy/1932/Hawaii-Race-Problem">{{cite book |last1=Du Puy |first1=William Atherton |title=Hawaii and Its Race Problem |date=1932 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office: United States Department of the Interior |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Xp0AAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> and named ] as ''Boone-ball''.<ref name="nytimes/1988/hoovers-legacy">{{cite news |last1=THOMAS |first1=ROBERT McG. Jr. |last2=JACOBS |first2=BARRY |title=Sports World Specials; Hoover's Legacy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/08/sports/sports-world-specials-hoover-s-legacy.html |access-date=16 August 2023 |date=8 August 1988 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="westbranchtimes/3359">{{cite web |last1=Baylor |first1=Kandi |title=Hooverball gets 4th court, new location and exhibition games |url=https://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?viewID=3359 |website=] |access-date=16 August 2023 |location=] |date=July 30, 2008}}</ref>


⚫ The League's headquarters are located in the historic Pen Arts Building and Art Museum in the DuPont Circle area of Washington.<ref name="Rise">{{cite web|title=The Rise of Pen Women – 1897|url=http://www.nlapw.org/history/|accessdate=6 September 2017}}</ref>


==Notable members== ==Notable members==
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* ]<ref name="Binheim" /> * ]<ref name="Binheim" />
* ]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Mrs. A. E. Blanchard - 10 Jul 1926, Sat • Page 19|journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1926|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13775387/the_philadelphia_inquirer/|accessdate=15 September 2017}}</ref> * ]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Mrs. A. E. Blanchard - 10 Jul 1926, Sat • Page 19|journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1926|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13775387/the_philadelphia_inquirer/|accessdate=15 September 2017}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="Who1975">{{cite book |author1=Marquis Who's Who Inc |title=Who was who in American History, Arts and Letters |date=1975 |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |isbn=978-0-8379-3301-6 |page=302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTQOAQAAMAAJ&q=Anne+Bozeman+Lyon+Casemir-Jacques |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="Binheim">{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin |first2=Charles A. |title=Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America|year=1928|location=Los Angeles |publisher=Publishers Press|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=August 6, 2017}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> * ]<ref name="Binheim">{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin |first2=Charles A. |title=Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America|year=1928|location=Los Angeles |publisher=Publishers Press|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=August 6, 2017}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="History-1924">{{cite book |title=History of Virginia |date=1924 |publisher=American historical Society |page=508 |volume=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=higSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA508 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=en |edition=Public domain}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="History1926">{{cite book | author = Georgia. Department of Archives and History | date = 1926 | title = Georgia Women of 1926 | publisher = Georgia Department of Archives and History | page = 23 | oclc = 25809880 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3V4TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23 |chapter=Collier, Mrs. Margaret Wootten (Mrs. Bryan Wells)}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
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* ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13763178/the_eugene_guard/|title=Eugene Pen Women Fete New Members at Coffee Today at E. R. Pilgrim Home|date=1955-02-20|work=The Eugene Guard|access-date=2017-09-14|pages=32|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13763178/the_eugene_guard/|title=Eugene Pen Women Fete New Members at Coffee Today at E. R. Pilgrim Home|date=1955-02-20|work=The Eugene Guard|access-date=2017-09-14|pages=32|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="Binheim" /> * ]<ref name="Binheim" />
* ]<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-vbYtuLdkoC&pg=PA186 |title=International Copyright Convention. Hearings Before a Subcommittee |chapter=Report of May Futrelle, National Chairman of Copyright, National League of American Pen Women |publisher=] |pages=186–187 |year=1941 |access-date=2021-09-16 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="Baltimore Sun May 1948">{{cite news |title=Mrs. Johnson Heads Penwoman's Group |work=Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, Maryland |date=1948-05-22 |page=8 }}</ref>
* ]<ref name="WhosWhoNationsCapital1926">{{cite book |title=Who's who in the Nation's Capital |year=1926 |publisher=Consolidated Publishing Company |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUY2ttKq71wC&pg=PA256 |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
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* ]<ref name="Binheim" /> * ]<ref name="Binheim" />
* ]<ref name="Rise" /> * ] (1884-1962), American political figure, diplomat, and activist<ref name="Rise" />
* ]<ref name="Binheim" /> * ]<ref name="Binheim" />
* ]<ref name="eveningstar25may1919">{{cite news |title=The League of American Pen Women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/332664305/?terms=Lura%20Brown%20Smith&match=1 |access-date=30 December 2021 |work=] |via=] |date=25 May 1919 |page=52 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="wapo11dec1910">{{cite news |title=An enthusiastic meeting of the League of American Pen Women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/31568691/?terms=Lura%20Brown%20Smith&match=1 |access-date=30 December 2021 |newspaper=] |via=] |date=11 December 1910 |page=112 |language=en}}</ref>
* ]
* ] (1847-1944), poet and educator<ref name="ChicagoTrib1944">{{cite news |title=Obituary for Julia H. Thayer II |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-obituary-for-julia-h-th/146367406/ |access-date=1 May 2024 |work=Chicago Tribune |via=] |date=16 January 1944 |page=32}}</ref>
* ]<ref name="LyonsWilson1922">{{cite book |last1=Lyons |first1=Louis S. |last2=Wilson |first2=Josephine |title=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 ... |date=1922 |publisher=Security Publishing Company |pages=15, 98, 605 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA605 |access-date=5 June 2023 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="SFEx30Oct1921">{{cite news |title=Who's Who in World of Women's Clubs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457804019/?terms=grace%20hyde%20trine&match=1 |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=San Francisco Examiner |via=Newspapers.com |date=30 October 1921 |page=34 |language=en}} {{source-attribution}}</ref>
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* ] (1867-1942), writer and playwright<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary for C. Antoinette Wood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/431864578/?article=14653cef-1b79-4c3a-82b5-c14114c6084f&terms=%22c.%20antoinette%20wood%22 |work=The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) |date=May 30, 1942}}</ref>
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==References== ==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Kimber |first=Marian Wilson |author-link=Marian Wilson Kimber |year=2024 |encyclopedia=] |title=National League of American Pen Women |publisher=] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000382072 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000382072 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}


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Membership organization for women

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

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

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."

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."

In 1921, with 5,000 members, Mrs. William Atherton du Puy (née Ada Lee Orme also Mrs. Ada Lee Orme du Puy), was National President (for two years) 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, Minnesota, and various states.

William Atherton du Puy (1876-1941) was a New York Times reporter, author, and "press agent" of Ray Lyman Wilbur as United States Secretary of the Interior. and named Hooverball as Boone-ball.


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

Notable members

Marian Adele Longfellow O'Donoghue, from an 1896 publication

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.
  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.
  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.Public Domain 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. Marquis Who's Who Inc (1975). Who was who in American History, Arts and Letters. Marquis Who's Who. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-8379-3301-6. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  19. History of Virginia. Vol. 5 (Public domain ed.). American historical Society. 1924. p. 508. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  20. 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. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  21. "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.
  22. "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.
  23. "Mrs. Johnson Heads Penwoman's Group". Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. May 22, 1948. p. 8.
  24. Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1926. p. 256. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
  25. "The League of American Pen Women". Evening Star. May 25, 1919. p. 52. Retrieved December 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. "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.
  27. "Obituary for Julia H. Thayer II". Chicago Tribune. January 16, 1944. p. 32. Retrieved May 1, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. 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. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  29. "Who's Who in World of Women's Clubs". San Francisco Examiner. October 30, 1921. p. 34. Retrieved June 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  30. "Obituary for C. Antoinette Wood". The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts). May 30, 1942.

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