Rose Emmet Young (1869–1941; also known as Rose Young, Rose Emmet, or R.E. Young) was an American fiction and editorial writer, and an advocate for the

suffrage movement Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

Background and early work

Rose Emmet Young was born in

Lexington, Missouri Lexington is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,726 at the 2010 census. Lexington is in western Missouri, within the Kansas City metropolitan area, approximately east of Kansas C ...

and spent her childhood there. Prior to her work in the suffrage movement and as a writer, she ran a lumber company. Young contributed to magazines and editorials under the pen name R.E. Young. Her fiction was published in ''Harper's'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Atlantic Monthly''; she was the literary and art editor for the University Publishing Co. for four years. Young moved to New York in 1899 and worked on the staff of the ''New York Evening Post''. She spent much of her life in New York.

Suffrage movement

In 1915, Young was hired by

Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859#Fowler, Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women t ...

to create and direct the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education, the press bureau for the

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and the

National American Woman Suffrage Association The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woma ...

. The bureau was created with funds from an inheritance, valued at nearly one million dollars, left to the cause of women's suffrage by

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. The Bureau was a daily news service distributed in all fifty states that collected and distributed information about women's right to vote; Young's job was to compile and redistribute news, editorials, photographs, cartoons and statistics to newspapers across the United States to inform the public about efforts related to women's suffrage and advocate for its adoption. The Bureau claimed that its news service, through distribution by the

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and other

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, reached ten to twenty million readers. As an extension of that effort, Young created and was editor-in-chief of ''

The Woman Citizen ''Woman's Journal'' was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by ...

'' (later '' The Woman's Journal''), a weekly newsletter for women that merged three existing publications: ''

Woman's Journal ''Woman's Journal'' was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by ...

'', ''National Suffrage News'', and ''

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''. This project extended the reach of the Leslie Bureau's research department for compiling statistics, lists of books, and editorial pieces. ''The Woman Citizen'' operated out of 171

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and on its own had a circulation of 20,000 readers. Young also contributed to several magazines and newspapers by writing editorials advocating for the advancement of the cause of women's suffrage.

Published works

Novels

* ''Sally of Missouri'' (1903) * ''Henderson'' (1903) * ''Murder at Mason’s'' (1927)

Short stories

* "Petticoat Push" (1906/1907), published in ''

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'' * "With Reluctant Feet" (1906/1907), published in ''

'' * "The Substance of Things Hoped For" (1906/1907), published in ''

Plays

* "The Cigar Smoker" (performed 1936), co-written with Marie Jenney Howe.

Non-fiction works

*
The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917-1929
' (1929) *
Why wars must cease
' (1935) (Editor; In collaboration with

and

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)

References

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