Maude Andrews Ohl

Maude Andrews Ohl (December 29, 1862 – January 7, 1943), known by her pen name Annulet Andrews, was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. She was The Atlanta Constitution's (later The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) first woman reporter.

Early life and education Maude Annulet Andrews was born in Taliaferro County, Georgia, December 29, 1862, in the home of her great-grandfather, Joshua Morgan. In infancy, she went with her parents to Washington, Georgia, where she spent the years of her childhood in the home of her grandfather, Judge Garnett Andrews, a jurist in the state. It was a sprawling estate with old orchards and terraced gardens, surrounded by a forest of giant trees. Ohl's father was Dr. Henry Andrews. Her cousins included Fanny Andrews, a popular novelist, and Eliza A. Bowen, the astronomer. Ohl was also related to General Robert Toombs.

Ohl received a liberal education and early showed her bent towards literature.

While still a child, Ohl began writing poetry, much of which was printed.

Career She became a contributor to the comic papers and magazines. In 1889, as a result of some clever letters sent by her from New York City to The Atlanta Constitution, he was city editor and she was society editor. She continued using her maiden name, "Maude Andrews", while at the Constitution.

Ohl published poems in the Magazine of Poetry and in various journals. Her poems were widely copied. She also wrote for Puck, Cosmopolitan, and for Harper's Weekly. Under the pen name, "Annulet Andrews", she was the author of an autobiographical novel, Melissa Starke, published shortly before her 73rd birthday, and The Wife of Narcissus, a novel which ran serially in The Saturday Evening Post. and provided services for the Woman's Department.

Ohl accompanied her husband to China when the latter was sent to the Orient as the Far Eastern Correspondent for the New York Herald. They returned to the U.S. in the early 1900s, when her Josiah was named editor of the Herald, and she then wrote a number of articles on her life in China.

Personal life The couple had one daughter, Joan,

Selected works Cousin Butterfly: Being Some Memories of Whistler (1904) The Wife of Narcissus (1908) Melissa Starke (1935) Songs of Day and Night