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Prename: | Marion |
Surname: | Talbot |
Profession: | Dean of women, professor |
Birthday: | 07/31/1858 |
Place of birth: | Thun, Switzerland |
Date of death: | 10/20/1948 |
Place of death: | Chicago |
Education: | 1880 B.A. Boston University; 1888 B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Career: | 1892 assistant professor of social science, 1895–1925 women’s dean, 1902 full professor of social science, University of Chicago |
Memberships: | 1881 founder, until 1892 general secretary, Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA) |
Biographical literature: | Mary Jo Deegan, “Marion Talbot,” in *Women in Sociology. A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook*, ed. Mary Jo Deegan (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), 390–9; Andrea Glauser, *More Than a Watchdog: Marion Talbot und die “Chicago Sociology”*(Bern: Institut für Soziologie, 2003) |
Major works: | *Food as a Factor in Student Life* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1894); *The Education of Women* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1910); *The Modern Household* (with Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge; Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1912); *The History of the American Association of University Women* (with Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931); *More than Lore. Reminiscences of Marion Talbot* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936) |