List of literary societies

A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. Often this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of literature, e.g. the World Science Fiction Society, or a specific writer -- see, for example, the list of poetry groups and movements. Such societies typically engage in research about their chosen author or genre, publishing a newsletter and holding meetings to deliver papers. Many are overtly academic and scholarly.

See also: College literary societies § List of literary societies in the United States

Some are more social groups of individuals who appreciate a chance to discuss literature and the arts, or their favorite writer with others.

American literary societies
FoundedEndedSocietyLocationSource and notes
1819 1886 Romney Literary Society Romney, West Virginia [1]
1849 Present Literary Club of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH [2]
1874 Present Literary Society of Washington Washington, D.C. [3]
1921 Present Tucson Literary Club Tucson, Arizona [4]

American literary societies associated with colleges or universities
FoundedEndedSocietyCollege or UniversitySource and notes
1750 1787 F. H. C. William & Mary [5]
1750 1772 Crotonia Society Yale [5]
1753 Present Linonian Society Yale [5]
1765 1928 American Whig Society Princeton [5]
1765 1928 Cliosophic Society Princeton [5]
1768 unknown Brothers in Unity Yale [5]
1770 unknown Institute of 1770 Harvard [5]
1771 unknown Pronouncing Society Brown [5]
1773 1781 P. D. A. William & Mary [6]
1776 1786 Athenian Society Rutgers [5][7]
1776 1787 Phi Beta Kappa Society William & Mary [5]
1776 1782 Polemical Society Rutgers [7]
1780 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Yale [8]
1781 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Harvard [5]
1783 Defunct Social Friends Society Dartmouth [5]
1786 Present Belles Lettres Society Dickinson [9][10]
1786 Defunct United Fraternity Dartmouth [5]
1787 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Dartmouth [5]
1789 Present Union-Philanthropic Society Hampden-Sydney [11][12]
1789 Present Union Philosophical Society Dickinson [9]
1789 1795 Society for Progress in Letters Columbia [13]
1791 unknown Porcellian Society Harvard [14]
1793 1890 Calliopean Society Union [15]
1794 1866 Philermenian Society Brown [5][16]
1795 Present Dialectic Society North Carolina [17]
1795 Present Philanthropic Society North Carolina [17]
1795 unknown Philologian Society Williams [17]
1795 unknown Philotechnian Society Williams [17]
1796 unknown Adelphic Society Union [17]
1797 Present Franklin Literary Society Jefferson [18]
1797 unknown Philo Literary Society Jefferson [18]
1802 Present Philolexian Society Columbia [5][13]
1802 1887 Athenaean Society Bowdoin [17][19]
1803 Present Demosthenian Literary Society Georgia [11][17]
1803 unknown Phi Sigma Nu Society Vermont [17]
1805 Present Peucinian Society Bowdoin [17]
1806 unknown Peithologian Society Columbia [5]
1806 Present Clariosophic Society South Carolina [20][21]
1806 Present Euphradian Society South Carolina [22][21]
1806 1866 United Brothers Society Brown [5][16]
1807 unknown Philological Society Pennsylvania [5]
1809 unknown Union Literary Society Washington [18]
1811 unknown Hermean Society Pennsylvania [11]
1813 Present Philomathean Society Pennsylvania [5]
1814 unknown Washington Literary Society Washington [18]
1814 unknown Phoenix Society Hamilton [17]
1814 unknown Union Society Hamilton [17]
1817 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Union [8]
1819 Present Calliopean Society Yale [11][23]
1819 1830 Patrick Henry Society Virginia [11]
1820 Present Phi Kappa Literary Society Georgia [11][24]
1820 unknown Henodelphisterian Society Indiana [25]
1821 unknown Alexandrian Society Amherst [22]
1821 unknown Athenian Society Amherst [22]
1822 Present Enosinian Society George Washington [26]
1822 unknown Franklin Debating Society Randolph-Macon [11]
1823 unknown Ciceronian Society George Washington [26]
1824 1834 Franklin Society Brown [27]
1824 unknown Athenaeum Society Trinity [22]
1824 unknown Society for Inquiry Colgate [22]
1825 Present Jefferson Society Virginia [11][28]
1825 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Bowdoin [8]
1825 1892 Philoclean Society Rutgers [22]
1825 unknown Agatheridan Society Nashville [20]
1825 1891 Peithissophian Society Rutgers [22][7]
1825 1924 Erodelphian Literary Society Miami University [29][30]
1825 1928 Miami Union Literary Society Miami University [30]
1826 unknown Franklin Society William & Mary [22]
1826 unknown Philozetian Society Western Reserve [31]
1827 unknown Literary Fraternity Colby [22]
1827 unknown Parthenon Society Trinity [22]
1827 unknown Philomathesian Society Kenyon [32]
1828 unknown Nu Pi Kappa Society Kenyon [32]
1828 unknown Philomathean Society College of Charleston [33]
1829 unknown Beth-Hacma Maryville [34]
1829 unknown Sophirodelphian Society Maryville [34]
1829 unknown Transylvania Whig Society Transylvania [35]
1829 unknown Union Philosophical Society Transylvania [36]
1829 unknown Zelosophic Society Pennsylvania [22]
1830 Present Phi Beta Kappa Society Brown [8]
1830 Present Philodemic Society Georgetown [11][37]
1830 unknown Athenian Society Indiana [25]
1830 unknown Calliopean Society Maine Wesleyan [22]
1830 unknown Philosophronian Society Hanover [38]
1830 unknown Union Literary Society Hanover [38]
1831 Present Washington Literary Society and Debating Union Virginia [39][11]
1831 1840 Adelphic Society Western Reserve [31]
1831 1933 Erosophic Society Alabama [22][40]
1831 unknown Euphradian Society College of Charleston [33]
1831 1840 Franklin Society Western Reserve [31]
1831 unknown Peithologian Society Wesleyan [22]
1831 unknown Philomathean Society Indiana [25]
1831 unknown Philorhetorian Society Wesleyan [22]
1832 1943 Philomathic Society Alabama [22][40]
1833 1840 Gamma Phi Society Colgate [41]
1833 1834 Franklin Polemic Society Mercer [11]
1833 Present Washington Society Randolph-Macon [11]
1834 1943 Eucleian Society New York [22]
1834 1888 Philomathean Society New York [11]
1834 unknown Beth-Hacma ve Berith Maryville [34]
1834 Defunct Ciceronian Society Mercer [11]
1834 unknown Ladies' Literary Society Oberlin [42]
1834 Defunct Phi Delta Society Mercer [11]
1834 unknown Philo-Franklin Society Allegheny [22]
1834 unknown Philomathean Society Wabash [43]
1834 1840 Pi Delta Society Colgate [41]
1835 unknown Allegheny Society Allegheny [22]
1835 unknown Calliopean Society Denison [31]
1835 unknown Diagnothian Society Franklin & Marshall [22]
1835 unknown Erosophian Adelphoi Society Colby [22]
1835 unknown Euphronean Society Wabash [43]
1835 Present Euzelian Society Wake Forest [44]
1835 unknown Philomathesian Society Wake Forest [44]
1835 unknown Society for Religious Inquiry Vermont [22]
1836 unknown Chi Delta Society East Tennessee [45]
1836 unknown Philomathesian Society East Tennessee [45]
1836 unknown Union Literary Society Muskingum [20]
1837 Present Philanthropic Society Davidson [20][46]
1837 Present Eumenean Society Davidson [20][46]
1837 Defunct Phi Gamma Society Emory [20]
1837 unknown Philosophian Society McKendree [20]
1838 unknown Cliosophic Society College of Charleston [33]
1838 unknown Platonian Society Indiana Asbury [20]
1839 ~1932 Tau Theta Kappa Society Georgetown College (KY) [20]
1839 ~1932 Ciceronian Society Georgetown College (KY) [20]
1839 unknown Alpha Kappa Society Marietta [20]
1839 unknown Dialectic Society Oberlin [42]
1839 Present Euphemian Society Erskine [11][47]
1839 Defunct Few Society Emory [11]
1839 unknown Licivyronian Society William & Mary [22]
1839 (Defunct 1863) Phi Delta Society Oglethorpe [48]
1839 unknown Philological Society Indiana Asbury [20]
1839 unknown Philomathesian Society Oberlin [42]
1839 unknown Psi Gamma Society Marietta [20]
1839 Present Thalian Society Oglethorpe [48]
1840 1880 Adelphian Society Colgate [22][41]
1840 1887 Aeonian Society Colgate [49]
1840 (Present) Calliopean Society Emory & Henry [50]
1840 Present Hermesian Society Emory & Henry [50]
1840 unknown Phi Delta Society Western Reserve [31]
1840 unknown Philalethian Society Hanover [51]
1840 unknown Tau Chi Society William & Mary [22]
1841 unknown Philopaedian Society St. Xavier [20]
1842 unknown Adelphi Society Howard [52]
1842 unknown Franklin Society Howard [52]
1842 Present Philomathean Society Erskine [53]
1842 unknown Phi Phi Alpha Society Michigan [22]
1843 unknown Alpha Nu Society Michigan [20]
1843 unknown Franklin Society Denison [22]
1843 Present Sigma Pi Society Illinois [20][54]
1844 unknown Clever Fellows Society Albion [55]
1844 unknown Clever Girls Society Albion [55]
1845 unknown Adelphi Society Knox [56]
1845 unknown Atheniaedes Society Albion [57]
1845 Defunct Calliopean Society Citadel [11][58]
1845 unknown Eclectic Society Albion [57]
1851 Present Excelsior Men's Society Heidelberg [20]
1845 unknown Hermean Society Geneva [22]
1845 Present Phi Alpha Society Illinois [20][54]
1845 unknown Zetagathea Society Ohio Wesleyan [20]
1846 unknown Alfreidian Lyceum Society Alfred [20]
1846 unknown Philomathean Society Muskingum [20]
1846 unknown Philosophian Society Wittenberg [20]
1847 unknown Calliopean Society Wabash [20]
1847 unknown Chrestomathean Society Ohio Wesleyan [20]
1847 unknown Lyceum Society Wabash [20]
1847 Present Polytechnic Literary Society Citadel [11][58]
1847 Present St. Anthony Hall Columbia
1848 1948 Chrestomathic Society College of Charleston [11][59]
1848 unknown Philomatic Society Spring Hill [60]
1848 unknown Tripartite Union Lycoming [22]
1849 unknown Alethearian Society Geneva [61]
1849 unknown Gnothautii Society Knox [20]
1849 1946 Hermaean Society Mississippi [11]
1849 1934 Phi Sigma Society Mississippi [11]
1849 unknown Philo-Christomathean Society Geneva [61]
1849 Defunct Platonian Society McKendree [20]
1850 unknown Athenian Society Wisconsin [62]
1850 unknown Belles Letters Society Lycoming [22]
1850 unknown Ciceronian Society Roanoke [20]
1850 Defunct Columbian Society Carson-Newman [11]
1850 1866 Delphic Society Rochester [22][63]
1850 unknown Demosthenean Society Roanoke [20]
1850 unknown Eupia Society Bucknell [20]
1850 unknown Orophilian Lyceum Society Alfred [20]
1850 Defunct Philomathean Society Carson-Newman [11]
1850 unknown Philophrenian Society Columbian [20]
1850 unknown Pithonian Society Rochester [22]
1850 unknown Soverville Society Ohio Female [20]
1850 unknown St. Aloysius Literary Society University of Notre Dame [64]
1850 unknown Theta Alphea Society Bucknell [20]
1851 unknown Addisonian Society Kentucky Military [20]
1851 unknown Adelphean Society Wesleyan [20]
1851 unknown Alleghenian Lyceum Society Alfred [20]
1851 unknown Amphictyon Society Lawrence [22]
1851 unknown Athenian Society Ohio Wesleyan [20]
1851 unknown Belles Letters Society MacMurray [65]
1851 unknown Clionian Society Free Academy [22]
1851 unknown Philolexian Society Kalamazoo [20]
1851 unknown Philomathean Society Waynesburg [22]
1851 unknown Philophronean Society Otterbein [20]
1851 unknown Sherwood Rhetorical Society Kalamazoo [20]
1851 unknown St. Aloysius Philodemics Society Notre Dame [20]
1851 unknown Students Philomathean Society Hartsville [20]
1851 unknown Union Society Waynesburg [22]
1852 Present Philomathean Society Wesleyan [20]
1852 unknown Gamma Epsilon Society Lycoming [22]
1852 unknown Ladies Literary Society Milton [20]
1852 unknown Philaletha Society Otterbein [20]
1852 unknown Philomathean Society Hiram [66]
1852 unknown Philomathian Society Mississippi [20]
1852 unknown Philomethean Society Wesleyan [20]
1852 unknown Phrenocosmian Society Free Academy [22]
1853 unknown Amphictyon Society Cornell College [20]
1853 unknown Chrestomathian Society Grinnell [20]
1853 unknown Clio Society Capital [20]
1853 unknown Emma Willards Society Waynesburg [22]
1853 unknown Hentz Society La Grange [67]
1853 unknown Judson Society La Grange [67]
1853 unknown Parthenian Society Baltimore [20]
1853 unknown Periclesian Society Franklin [68]
1853 unknown Phi Nu Society MacMurray [65]
1853 unknown Phileans Society Waynesburg [22]
1853 unknown Union Literary Society Geneva [61]
1853 unknown Webster Society Franklin [68]
1854 unknown Alethezethian Society Antioch [69]
1854 Present Archanian Society Univ. of the Pacific [20]
1854 unknown Aristotelian Society Central [22]
1854 unknown Calhoun Society Wofford [70]
1854 1875 Delphic Society Hiram [71][72]
1854 unknown Erodelphian Society Burlington [20]
1854 unknown Hamline Society Iowa Wesleyan [73]
1854 unknown Hesperian Society Hiram [71]
1854 unknown Hesperian Society Wisconsin [62]
1854 unknown Linnaen Society Mount Union [20]
1854 unknown Phi Alpha Society Central [22]
1854 unknown Philomathian Society Bethel [20]
1854 unknown Washington Society Bethel [20]
1855 unknown Alethean Society Baldwin [20]
1855 unknown Calliope Academy Spring Hill [60]
1855 unknown Crescent Society Antioch [69]
1855 unknown Curious Society Milwaukee [20]
1855 unknown Erosophian Society Marshall [22]
1855 unknown Hyperion Society Marshall [22]
1855 unknown Philalethean Society Lawrence [68]
1855 unknown Philologian Society Richmond [20]
1855 unknown Philopenthean Society Geneva [22]
1855 unknown Philophrenian Society George Washington [26]
1855 unknown Phoenix Society Lawrence [68]
1855 unknown Star Society Antioch [69]
1856 Defunct Beltionian Society Wheaton [74]
1856 unknown Hinman Society Northwestern [71]
1856 unknown Mathesian Society Northwestern Christian [75]
1856 unknown Philadelphian Society Monmouth [20]
1856 unknown Philalethic Society Santa Clara [20]
1856 unknown Philomathean Society Willamette [76]
1856 unknown Philoneikean Society Moores Hill [77]
1856 unknown Phoenix Band Society Earlham [20]
1857 unknown Alpha Kappa Phi Society Hillsdale [20]
1857 unknown Amphictyon Society Hillsdale [20]
1857 unknown Eurodelphian Society Spring Hill [60]
1857 unknown Hesperian Society Ohio Female [20]
1857 unknown Ionian Society Earlham [20]
1857 unknown Ladies Literary Union Hillsdale [20]
1857 unknown Literary Adelphi Society Michigan [20]
1857 unknown Philomathean Society Otterbein [20]
1857 unknown Phreno-Cosmian Society Baldwin [20]
1857 unknown Pythonian Society Northwestern Christian [75]
1857 unknown Sigournean Society Moores Hill [77]
1858 unknown Adelphian Society Cornell College [20]
1858 unknown Athena Society Lawrence [22]
1858 unknown Excelsior Society Albright [22]
1858 unknown Preston Society Wofford [70]
1858 unknown Rhizomian Society Univ. of the Pacific [20]
1859 unknown Alethean Society Beloit [20]
1859 unknown Archaean Society Beloit [20]
1859 unknown Belles Letters Society Illinois Wesleyan [78]
1859 1939 Belles Lettres Society Southern University (Greensboro, Alabama) [79]
1859 1939 Clariosophic Society Southern University (Greensboro, Alabama) [79]
1859 unknown Delean Society Beloit [20]
1859 Present German Verein (now the Alpha Omega chapter of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) German Wallace [20]
1859 unknown Germanae Sodales Society Hillsdale [20]
1859 unknown Literary Society Maryland [80]
1859 unknown Neocosmian Society Albright [22]
1859 unknown Philestorian Society Santa Clara [20]
1859 unknown Ruthean Society Iowa Wesleyan [81]
1859 unknown Sophronikopean Society Missionary [20]
1859 unknown Star Society Adrian [20]
1859 unknown Webster Society Michigan [20]
1860 unknown Adelphian Society Furman [82]
1860 unknown Adelphic Society Northwestern [71]
1860 unknown Athenaeum Society Chicago [20]
1860 unknown Erosophian Society Lombard [20]
1860 unknown Eulexian Society St. Stephen's [20]
1860 unknown Franklin Reading Society Furman [82]
1860 unknown Philomathean Society Milton [20]
1860 unknown Philosophian Society Furman [82]
1860 unknown Reynolds Society Stockwell [20]
1860 Defunct Philomathean Literary Society Phi Kappa Sigma Male College
1861 unknown Addisonian Society Wayland [20]
1861 unknown Berean Society Chicago [83]
1861 unknown Phi Alpha Pi Society Olivet [20]
1861 unknown Tri Kappa Society Chicago [83]
1861 1933 Zetagathian Society University of Iowa [84]
1862 1933 Erodelphian Society University of Iowa [85]
1863 1933 Hesperian Society University of Iowa [85]
1864 1929 Irving Institute University of Iowa [85]
1865 unknown De La Salle Club Manhattan [20]
1865 unknown Erosophian Society Baylor [22]
1865 unknown Irving Society Andalusia, (Pa.) [20]
1865 Present Philalethean Society (now the Philaletheis Society) Vassar [20][86]
1866 unknown Alka Society Willamette [76]
1866 unknown Brown Debating Society Stockwell [20]
1866 unknown Clionian Society Almira [20]
1866 unknown Garnet Society Lincoln [22]
1866 unknown Lincoln Association Illinois Soldiers' [20]
1866 unknown Philomathean Society Union Christian [20]
1866 unknown Robert E. V. Rice Society Niagara [22]
1866 unknown Scientific Society Wilberforce [20]
1866 unknown Semicentenary Society Wilberforce [20]
1866 unknown St Joseph Society St. Joseph College, New York [20]
1866 unknown Stonewall Society Baylor [22]
1866 unknown Themian Society Quincy [20]
1867 unknown Aristotelian Society Harlem Springs [20]
1867 unknown Athenian Society Tennessee Wesleyan [22]
1867 unknown Byronic Society Harlem Springs [20]
1867 unknown Erosophian Society Albion [20]
1867 unknown Eulexian Society St. Augustine College, California [20]
1867 unknown Euterpean Society Muhlenberg [87]
1867 unknown Neotrophian Society Bethel [22]
1867 unknown Philokosmian Society Lebanon Valley [20]
1867 unknown Philosophian Society Lincoln [22]
1867 unknown Sophronian Society Muhlenberg [87]
1867 unknown Zetalethean Society Simpson [20]
1868 unknown Adelphene Society Union Christian [20]
1868 unknown Alpha Delta Society Hiram [66]
1868 unknown German Society St. Xaviers [20]
1868 1888[88] Irving Society Cornell University [20]
1868 unknown Lehigh Junto Lehigh [20]
1868 unknown Phi Delta Society Berea [22]
1868 unknown Philocurian Society Northwestern Christian [20]
1868 unknown Philomathean Society Iowa State [22]
1868 unknown Philomathian Society Illinois [20]
1869 unknown Athenaean Society Kings College, Tennessee [22]
1869 unknown Basilian Society Niagara [22]
1869 Still active Clionian Literary Society McKendree [89]
1869 unknown Orthopatetic Society Blackburn [22]
1869 unknown Philomathean Society Tennessee Wesleyan [22]
1869 unknown Photozotean Society Moore's hill [77]
1869 unknown Zenobian Society Minnesota [20]
1870 Defunct Aristonian Society Wheaton [74]
1870 unknown Atheneum Society Willamette [76]
1870 unknown Bachelor Society Iowa State [22]
1870 1906 Baconian Society Potsdam [90][91]
1870 unknown Castelian Society Rockford [22]
1870 unknown Crescent Society Iowa State [22]
1870 unknown Erodelphian Society Highland [20]
1870 unknown Grinnell Institute Grinnell [20]
1870 unknown Irving Society Wooster [20]
1870 unknown Philologian Society St Stephens [20]
1870 unknown Philotechnic Society Louisiana State [22]
1870 Present Signet Society Harvard
1870 unknown Vesperian Society Rockford [22]
1870 unknown Wayland Society Brown [20]
1871 unknown Bettina Society German Wallace [20]
1871 unknown Bonhommian Society Highland [20]
1871 unknown Cliolian Society Iowa State [22]
1871 1889 Delphic Society Geneseo [92][93]
1871 unknown Sodalian Society Wilberforce [20]
1872 unknown Adelphic Society Geneva [61]
1872 Defunct Excelsior Society Wheaton [74]
1873 Defunct Clariosophic Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1873 Defunct Alamo Society Southwestern [11][95]
1874 unknown Ossoli Society Northwestern [71]
1875 Defunct San Jacinto Society Southwestern [11][95]
1876 unknown Eutaxian Society Oregon [96]
1876 unknown Laurean Society Oregon [96]
1876 unknown Stephen F. Austin Society Texas A&M
1877 Present Cleo of Alpha Chi Trinity College
1879 unknown Calliopean Society Texas A&M
1879 Defunct Arkansas Literary and Debating Society Lyon College [97]
1881 Defunct Alethean Society Southwestern [11][95]
1883 Defunct Philomathean Society Lyon College [97]
1884 unknown L'Etoile Lyon College [97]
1885 Defunct Clio Society Southwestern [11][95]
1886 Defunct Garland Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1886 Defunct Adelphian Circle Ouachita Baptist University
1888 Defunct Hermesian Literary Society Ouachita Baptist University
1888 Defunct Philomathean Literary Society Ouachita Baptist University
1889 Present Winthrop Literary Society Winthrop [11]
1891 Defunct Gamma Sigma Literary Society Henderson State University
1891 Defunct Erosophic Society Lyon College [97]
1892 Defunct Delta Sigma Society Lyon College [97]
1895 Defunct Grady Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1895 1928 Philomathean Society University of Iowa [85]
1897 Present Gamma Nu Society Illinois [11][54]
1898 1939 Eumenean Society (absorbed by the Clariosophic Society in when Southern University and Birmingham College merged to form Birmingham-Southern College in 1918) Birmingham-Southern College
1898 1939 Robert E. Lee Society (absorbed by the Belles Lettres Society when Southern University and Birmingham College merged to form Birmingham-Southern College in 1918) Birmingham-Southern College
1898 Defunct Franklin Literary Society Hendrix College
1899 Defunct Harlan Literary Society Hendrix College
1900 Defunct Athenian Literary Society Ouachita Baptist University
1900 1933 Octave Thanet University of Iowa [85]
1900 Defunct Periclean Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1905 Defunct Garland Literary Society Henderson State University
1904 unknown Sul Ross Literary Society Texas A&M University
1906 Defunct Lee Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1907 Defunct Demosthenean Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1908 Defunct Franklin Literary Society University of Arkansas [94]
1911 Present Elizabethan Club Yale [11]
1911 Present Gamma Delta Society Illinois [54]
1912 Defunct Hesperian Society Heidelberg [11][98]
1912 Present Philomathean Society Univ. of the Pacific [99]
1913 Present Euglossian Society Heidelberg [11][98]
1913 Present Philalethean Society Heidelberg [11]
1913 Present Philalethean Society Rutgers [11]
1913 1928 Whitby University of Iowa [85]
1914 Defunct Adelphian Society Mountain Home College
1915 Defunct Athenian Society Mountain Home College
1915 Defunct Hypatian Society South Carolina [11]
1916 1933 Athena University of Iowa [85]
1916 Present Sigma Phi Epsilon Society Illinois [11][100]
1920 Present Chi Beta Society Illinois [11][54]
1920 1934 Hamlin Garland University of Iowa [85]
1921 Present Aptonalton Literary Society Heidelberg University
1921 1950 Kappa Iota Literary Society Alma College
1923 Defunct Daedalian Literary Society Indiana State Normal School [101][102][103]
1924 Present Euphrosynean Society South Carolina [11]
1926 1928 Delta Rho Society Lyon College [97]
1928 Present American Whig-Cliosophic Society Princeton [11][104]
1929 Present Pi Pi Rho Society Illinois [11][54]
1947 Present Alpha Omega Delta Literary Society Bob Jones University
1991 Present Philomathean Society Union [17][105]
2015 Present Franklin Society Virginia [106][107]

Australian literary societies
FoundedEndedSocietyLocationSource and notes
c. 1890 Unknown Women's Literary Society Sydney [108]

International Societies

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