List of literary societies
# 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.

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

| Founded | Ended | Society | Location |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1819 | 1886 | Romney Literary Society | Romney, West Virginia |
| 1849 | Present | Literary Club of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH |
| 1874 | Present | Literary Society of Washington | Washington, D.C. |
| 1921 | Present | Tucson Literary Club | Tucson, Arizona |

### American literary societies associated with colleges or universities

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

## Australian literary societies

| Founded | Ended | Society | Location | Source and notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| c. 1890 | Unknown | Women's Literary Society | Sydney | |

## International Societies

* Medieval Chronicle Society
* Literary and Debating Society (NUI Galway)
