Quick Facts
Biography
Rose Emmet Young (1869–1941) was an American writer of fiction and editorials advocating for the suffrage movement. She was director of the Leslie Women Suffrage Bureau, the press bureau for the National American Women Suffrage Association, a 50-state daily news service collecting and distributing information about women's right to vote. She was editor-in-chief of the organization's Woman Citizen newsletter, later the Women's Journal, and contributed to several magazines and newspapers with editorials advancing women's suffrage.
Work
Young was born in Lexington, Montana, and previously ran a lumber company. She contributed to magazines and editorials under the pen name R.E. Young, with fiction published in Harper's, McClure's, Collier's and Atlantic Monthly. She moved to New York in 1899 and worked on the staff of the New York Evening Post. In 1915, she was hired by the National American Women Suffrage Association's Carrie Chapman Catt, who was responsible for dispersing a $750,000 inheritance left to the cause of women's suffrage by Miriam Leslie, to direct the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education.
In 1917, Young's work for that organization 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 the reach of its news service, through distribution by the Associated Press and other wire services, reached 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 readers.
As an extension of that effort, Young created and supervised the Woman Citizen magazine, a weekly journal for women which merged three existing publications: The Woman's Journal, National Suffrage News, and The Woman Voter. 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 Madison Avenue in New York City and claimed a circulation of 20,000 readers.
Published works
- Sally of Missouri, novel, 1903
- Henderson, novel, 1903
- Petticoat Push, 1906/1907, short story published in Harper's Bazaar
- With Reluctant Feet, 1906/1907, short story published in Harper's Bazaar
- The Substance of Things Hoped For, 1906/1907, short story published in Harper's Bazaar
- Murder at Mason’s, novel, 1927
- The Record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, archive, 1929
- Why Wars Must Cease, 1953 (collaboration with Carrie Chapman Catt and Eleanor Roosevelt)