Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author.
She published two volumes of her memoir, ''Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir'' and ''I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People'', as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated.
She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in
China
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to study art.
Personal life
She was a native of
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
,
, and a graduate of
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist
Cornelia James Cannon
Cornelia James Cannon (1876–1969) was a feminist reformer and best-selling author of the novel ''Red Rust''.
Biography
Cannon was raised in Minnesota and was a graduate of Radcliffe College. She was married to Walter Bradford Cannon, a profes ...
, and her father was
Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon (October 19, 1871 – October 1, 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term "fight or flight response", and developed the theory ...
, a professor at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
. She was married for thirty years to
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a s ...
; their daughter,
Christina Schlesinger
Christina Schlesinger (born November 19, 1946) is an American painter and muralist. Daughter of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., she sought independence from her family's fame, practiced “protest art”, and came out as a lesbian. She made s ...
, is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017 at the age of in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Works
* ''San Bao and his Adventures in Peking, 1''939; 2d. edition Cambridge MA: Gale Hill Books, 1998.
* ''Children of the Fiery Mountain'', New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1940.
* ''Snatched From Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir,'' Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979.
* ''I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People,'' Cambridge MA: TidePool Press, 2012.
References
External links
"Marian Cannon Schlesinger Remembers" radcliffe.harvard.edu; accessed December 9, 2016.
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1912 births
2017 deaths
20th-century American painters
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American centenarians
American children's writers
American landscape painters
American memoirists
American portrait painters
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American women painters
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Radcliffe College alumni
American women memoirists
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