Annie Fellows
Johnston Scrapbook
Newspaper
"Clippings" 1922
Louisville Courier-Journal, February 16, 1922
The following note is received from the Page Company:
We
nominate for the "Hall of Fame" (with apologies to "Vanity
Fair"):
Annie
Fellows Johnston: Because she is a composite American woman, having started
life as a Yankee, later becoming a Hoosier and latterly a welcome resident of
"Old Kentucky;" because she considers Boston the most provincial
spot in the good old U.S.A.; because she is the most gifted and the most
helpful of the present-day writers for young people; because she is the
author of the famous "Little Colonel" books, and, finally, because
she has just sent to her publishers (Page, Boston) the manuscript of a new
"Little Colonel" book --- "The Road of the Loving Heart"
--- a beautiful category, which will appear in book form next summer.
Louisville Post, February 18, 1922
Annie Fellows Johnston's New Book
The Road of the Loving Heart
is the winning title of a new "Little Colonel" book, promised by
summertime.
Mrs.
Johnston's publishers, the Page Company, Boston, have recently sent us their
list of candidates for the Hall of Fame Among the names his that of Mrs.
Johnston. We quote her publishers' several reasons for including our popular
author with their other eligibles:
"Because she is a composite American woman, having started
life as a Yankee, later becoming a Hoosier and latterly a welcome resident of
"Old Kentucky;" because she considers Boston the most provincial
spot in the good old U. S. A.; because she is the most gifted and the most
helpful of the present-day writers for young people; because she is the
author of the famous "Little Colonel" books, and, finally, because
she has just sent to her publishers (Page, Boston) the manuscript of a new
"Little Colonel" book --- "The Road of the Loving Heart"
--- a beautiful allegory."
Pen Women Honor
Child Story Author
Louisville Courier-Journal, May 12, 1922
The Courier-Journal Washington Bureau
Washington, May 11.--- Mrs.
Annie Fellows Johnston of Pewee Valley, KY., author of "The Little Colonel Stories," has
been
elected a vice president on the
National Executive Board of the
League of American Pen Women
to represent the State of Kentucky, it was announced today.
The organization's convention has just closed here.
"LITTLE
COLONEL" IS
UNABLE TO ACCEPT
Mrs. Johnston Says She
Won't Emerge From
Retirement.
Louisville Courier-Journal, May 28, 1922
An
invitation to the "Little Colonel," who, under the guidance of Mrs.
Annie Fellows Johnston, has assisted in establishing
Louisville as a home of good writers, was extended by officers of the Citizens
Union National Bank to visit the new banking home in advance of the formal opening and
express her opinion of the new quarters through Mrs. Johnston.
Mrs.
Johnston replied thanking the officers
of the bank for their invitation and regretting the fact that she could not
accept.
"Unfortunately," Mrs. Johnston wrote, "after, personally
conducting the
'Little Colonel' through twelve volumes, I publicly laid her upon a shelf,
and since that time she refuses to come down for me. I cannot prevail
upon her to step into any more stories or
articles, however brief. Greatly deploring the fact, I thank you, nevertheless,
for your invitation."
Author of
"Little
Colonel" Will
Entertain
Louisville Post,
October 3, 1922
This web site is devoted to
The
first of the children's programmes of the season to be given at the Women's Club is to be
"A Morning with Mrs. Annie
Fellows Johnston."
It will
take place at
11:30 o'clock Saturday in the club auditorium. Mrs. Johnston, Kentucky author,
will read an
original story
called "Ben's
Thunderstorm.