[3] Aurelia Hadley Mohl, a journalist from Houston invited 38 women to hear a proposal to form the TWPA in 1893.
[4] Mohl had been a member of the Woman's National Press Association and felt that a similar group in Texas would be good for women writers in that state.
[6] Originally, the group was created in order to provide professional encouragement for Texas women writers of all types and included illustrators.
"[10] By 1913, the group was influential enough to push for women to be included at the University of Texas' new School of Journalism, which opened in 1914.
[13] Their initiative wasn't successful, but was important in bringing attention to the poor state of the archives at the time.