Title: Will Allen Dromgoole Collection

Date/Date Range :   1831-1960

Extent: 4.0 linear feet

Abstract:

Miss Will Allen Dromgoole was a Tennessee poet, author and playwright. The collection contains many of her writings.

Call number: MS-0201

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Marianne T. Burke donated this collection to the University of Tennessee's Special Collections Library in 1960.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Will Allen Dromgoole Collection, MS-1831-1960. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of four boxes divided into three series: Poetry, Manuscripts, and Personal and Biographical.

Miss Will Allen Dromgoole was a poet, author, and playwright from Rutherford County, Tennessee. "Miss Will," as she was widely known, was literary editor and author of "Song and Story" for The Nashville Banner for nearly 30 years. Her works were widely read in Tennessee as well as the entire South. In 1930, Miss Dromgoole was named poet laureate by the Poetry Society of the South. Dromgoole's published books included The Heart of Old Hickory, Hero-Chums, and A Moonshiner's Son. She died 1 September 1934, briefly before what would have been her 30th anniversary with the Banner.

Included in these papers are manuscripts of The Tennessean, a four act play, and The Birds of Tennessee, an operetta, as well as many of her poems. Personal effects, such as scrapbooks, photos, and business records, are found in her papers along with manuscripts of four of her short stories: "In That Which is Least," "Best of Friends," "His Little Hour," and "In Tin Cup Alley."

• Authors, American -- Tennessee.
• Short stories, American -- Women authors.
• American literature -- Women authors.
• Dromgoole, Will Allen (William Anne), 1860-1934.