I've been doing a lot of research on Elizabeth Mansfield Irving, my great grandmother. She was born in 1852 and came of age in the Gilded Age - when she decided to be an elocutionist, and was. She was great.
The National Association of Elocutionists has her imprint all over them. Here are some Proceedings:]
National Association of Elocutionists. 1892. Proceedings of the First National Convention of Public Readers and Teachers of Elocution, Columbia College, New York June 27-July 2, 1892. Online: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings/JXecqYkzmHcC
National Association of Elocutionists. 1898. Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists, Tenth Annual Meeting (1897), New York. Online: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_Annual_Meeting_of_the/564VAQAAMAAJ
National Association of Elocutionists. 1898. Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists. 1898. Held at the Odeon in the College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 27, 28, 29. 30, and July 1. Douglas Brown, Cincinnati. Online: https://books.google.com/books?id=gLINAAAAIAAJ
National Association of Elocutionists. Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists: Tenth Annual Meeting, Held at Buffalo, New York, June 24 to 28, 1901. Online: https://sites.google.com/a/hx.books-now.com/en266/9781331976622-45enhiGErescon74
National Association of Elocutionists. Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists: Thirteenth Annual Meeting, held at New York City, New York, June 1904. Online: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_of_the_National_Association/XagVAQAAMAAJ
National Speech Arts Association. Proceedings of the National Speech Arts Association: Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Oak Park, Illinois, 1908. Online: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054844287&view=1up&seq=1.
National Speech Arts Association. Proceedings of the National Speech Arts Association: Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1909. Online: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054844527&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
