Amazing women who’ve laid the groundwork for the rest of us . . . In 1897, the first meeting of The League of American Pen Women was organized by Marian Longfellow O’Donoghue (yes, Henry’s niece), who wrote for newspapers in Washington D.C. and Boston. She invited fellow journalists Margaret Sullivan Burke and Anna Sanborn Hamilton to join her in establishing a “progressive press union” for the female writers of Washington. “The Dauntless Three“ brought together seventeen women: writers, novelists, newspaper women, a teacher, a poet and an artist. They hoped that these “active pen women” would find in the group, “mutual aid, advice, and future development” for each other and their careers. The association became The National League of American Pen Women in 1921 with thirty-five local branches in various states. And they are still doing so today.
I’m honored to be presenting to them at their luncheon in March. I’ll share our voyage around the Pacific and my writing journey.
http://www.nlapw.org/
