{"id":1836,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1836"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"penny, kate mayhew speake, 1864-1947  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"PENNY, KATE MAYHEW SPEAKE, 1864-1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer.  Born&#8211;  1864, Lawrence County.  Parents&#8211;  Henry O. and Carolyn  Olivia (Mayhew) Speake.  Married&#8211;  James Edwin Penny.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  Huntsville Female Seminary.  One of the organizers of the Birmingham Chapter of League of American Pen Women and served as it&#8217;s first president; president of the Alabama State Chapter.  Member of the Writers Club (President), Quest Club, and Alabama Writers Conclave.  Her book, A Women&#8217;s Problem, contributed to furthering the cause of temperance reform. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marks&#8217; Who Was Who in Alabama and from Biographical Dictionary of            Southern Authors. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Common Lot.  Cincinnati, Ohio;  Editor Publishing Co., 1898.  <\/p>\n<p>     Cross Currents.  Boston;  B. Humphries, Inc., 1938. <\/p>\n<p>     Land Poor, and Six Shorter Stories.  New York;  H. Vinal Limited, 1928. <\/p>\n<p>     My Daughter.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Pub. Co., 1946. <\/p>\n<p>     Us.  Philadelphia;  Dorrance, 1934. <\/p>\n<p>     A Woman&#8217;s Problem.  Toronto;  W. Briggs, 1905. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; 1864, Lawrence County. Parents&#8211; Henry O. and Carolyn Olivia (Mayhew) Speake. Married&#8211; James Edwin Penny. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Huntsville Female Seminary. One of the organizers of the Birmingham Chapter of League of American Pen Women and served as it&#8217;s first president; president of the Alabama State Chapter. Member of the Writers Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}