Rose Woodallen Chapman

Rose Woodallen Chapman (1875–1923) was an American lecturer, author and editor.

Early life and education Rose Maria Wood-Allen was born at Lakeside, Ohio near Toledo. She was the only daughter of Dr. Mary Wood-Allen.

Career When failing health on the part of her mother called Chapman back home, Chapman took up the duties of acting editor of the magazine owned and edited by her mother, then known as The New Crusade, still being published under the name of American Motherhood. With this, she remained associated both in the business management and editorially until her marriage, in 1902, to William Brewster Chapman, of Cleveland, Ohio.

In October 1907, she was appointed national superintendent of the Purity Department of the WCTU. In this capacity, she wrote a large number of articles and leaflets, including her book The Moral Problem of the Children. In the same year, she became editor of a department in the Ladies Home Journal, and was appointed associate superintendent of the Moral Educational Department of the WCTU. This position, however, together with her national superintendency she resigned in the spring of 1911 on account of threatened poor-health, and in order to devote herself more exclusively to her literary work.

She served as chair of the committee of community service on motion pictures for the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1922. She was a member of the Will H. Hays "committee of twenty," which included in its membership Mrs. Herbert H. Hoover, president of the Girl Scouts; Charles A. McMahon, editor, National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin, and a group of civic leaders from throughout the U.S. In behalf of the movement to awaken public interest in the pictures being produced at that time, and in response to the demand for "better pictures", Chapman formed a council composed of the chairs of the fifteen largest organizations in the country.

Personal life In August 1905, her only child, a son, Bruce Wood-Allen Chapman, was born.

Selected works Books The Moral Problem of the Children, 1909 (text) Making the Best of Our Children ..., Volume 1, 1909 (text) How Shall I Tell My Child?, 1912 (text)

Articles "The Superfluities of Life", Good Health, 1906 "Things for the Cook, Sir", American Motherhood, 1907 "The Problem of Goodness", American Motherhood, 1907 "How New Thought Principles were Taught to a Child of Four", The Nautilus: Magazine of New Thought, 1907 "Solving the Domestic Problem By New Thought Formulae", The Nautilus: Magazine of New Thought, 1907 "All is Good", The Nautilus: Magazine of New Thought, 1907

Filmography Scenario writer, Safeguarding the Nation