A Girl's Student Days and After

Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 - March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Marks attended boarding schools in Europe the United States. She then attended Dana Hall School and Wellesley College. In 1900, she earned a Bachelor's degree and three years later she received her Masters'. From 1901 to 1939, Marks was at Mount Holyoke College, where she was a professor of English Literature. 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. She also founded the Laboratory Theatre in 1928, where she was its director until 1941.

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