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National League of American Pen Women

Grace Porterfield Polk founded the organization as the Indiana Branch of National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW) in 1923.… Read More »National League of American Pen Women

Jeannette Covert Nolan

Jeannette Covert Nolan

(Mar. 31, 1896-Oct. 12, 1974). Indianapolis author of 50 books, including adult fiction, detective stories, and 31 histories and biographies… Read More »Jeannette Covert Nolan

The Portfolio Club

The Portfolio Club

The Portfolio is one of Indianapolis’s oldest, continuously active social clubs. It was organized in 1890 at the suggestion of… Read More »The Portfolio Club

Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift Stevenson

Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift Stevenson

(Mar. 10, 1840-Feb. 18, 1914). Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, an Indianapolis native, attended the Third Ward School and the… Read More »Frances (Fanny) Van de Grift Stevenson

Emma Lou Thornbrough

Emma Lou Thornbrough

(Jan. 24, 1913-Dec. 19, 1994). A life-long civil-rights activist, a professor of history at from 1946 until her retirement in… Read More »Emma Lou Thornbrough

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