Rose Emmet Young

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.

Background and early work Rose Emmet Young was born in Lexington, Missouri 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, McClure's, The Century Magazine, Collier's 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. 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 Associated Press and other wire services, reached ten to twenty million readers.

As an extension of that effort, Young created and was editor-in-chief of The Woman Citizen (later The Woman's Journal), a weekly newsletter for women that merged three existing publications: Woman's Journal, National Suffrage News, and The Woman Voter. "With Reluctant Feet" (1906/1907), published in Harper's Bazaar

Non-fiction works

The record of the Leslie woman suffrage commission, inc., 1917-1929 (1929) Why wars must cease (1935) (Editor; In collaboration with Carrie Chapman Catt and Eleanor Roosevelt)