Jeannette Augustus Marks
Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College.Born on August 16, 1875, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks,[1] who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering.In 1899 she met Mary Emma Woolley, a Wellesley professor, with whom she entered into a relationship that lasted 48 years.[1] She founded a lecture series to discuss modern literature at the college named the Play and Poetry Shop Talks, which featured established poets and authors.[1] She contributed with money to socialist causes and advocated for Eugene V. Debs and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
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