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Dromgoole"s parents sent her to the Clarksville Female Academy, where she graduated in 1876. She studied law with her father, but women were not allowed to become lawyers.
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She wrote over 7,500 poems. 5,000 essays; and published thirteen books She was renowned beyond the South.
Her poem "The Bridge Builder" was often reprinted.
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Will Allen Dromgoole was the last of several children born to Rebecca Mildred (Blanche) and John Easter Dromgoole in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her paternal grandparents were Review
Thomas and Mary Dromgoole.
She was appointed as staff to the state legislature, where she started working in 1883. Dromgoole was a prolific writer, publishing both prose and poetry. She was also a journalist for the Nashville American, a newspaper based in the Middle Tennessee city.
She first published a story in Youth"s Companion in 1887.
lieutenant was about the Tennessee governor, Bob Taylor. She had a best-selling novel in 1911, The Island of the Beautiful.
Dromgoole taught school in Tennessee one year, and one year in Temple, Texas. There she founded the Waco Women"s Press Club.
During World War I, Dromgoole was a warrant officer in the United States Naval Reserve.
She lectured to sailors on patriotic topics. Dromgoole wrote a series of articles on the Southeastern ethnic group known as the Melungeons, published in the Nashville Daily American (1890) and the Boston Arena (1891). This historically mixed-race group was then living mostly in northeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky.
Her derogatory comments about them, while based more on hearsay than fact, expressed the biases about mountain people typical of her society and the period in which she was writing.
Since the early 20th century, Melungeons have increasingly intermarried with European Americans and integrated into mainstream white society.
