![]() ![]() (See A History of the National Amateur Press Association.) While raising her child as a single mother, Jennie would continue as an amateur journalist, and that is apparently how Lovecraft first knew her-as Mrs. Lovecraft joined amateur journalism in 1914, her term would have ended. ![]() Jennie Kendall was elected to fulfill the remainder of her late husband’s term, incidentally becoming the second female president of NAPA. Unfortunately, on 23 November 1913, only four months into his term, he died from meningitis. In 1913, Frank Kendall was elected as President of NAPA. In 1911, Jennie and Frank married they both continued in amateurdom, and the union produced a daughter Betty. She was elected as Corresponding Secretary of NAPA in 1905, and in 1908 she served as Historian under Official Editor Frank A. ![]() Yet beyond her professional duties, Jennie Maloney was a noted amateur journalist involved with the National Amateur Press Association. The daughter of Irish immigrants and raised in Chicago, she was listed as a student in the 1900 Federal census, and the 1910 census gives her profession as a stenographer. She was born Jane Irene Maloney in 1882 (according to her grave marker)-but she was better known throughout her life as Jennie. Lovecraft, “Department of Public Criticism,” United Amateur Sep 1918 in Collected Essays 1.205 Blood should exercise more care in his use of rhyme and metre. Kendall’s ballad is marked by attractive animation and commendable correctness, but Dr. Further versified contributions are those of Mrs. ![]()
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