Marian Cannon Schlesinger
Marian Cannon Schlesinger (born September 13, 1912) is an artist and author.[1] She has 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.[2]
Schlesinger painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China to study art.[3]
She is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was for a time married to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter, Christina Schlesinger, is a painter.
References
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- ↑ A Centenarian's Advice to Young Women: Figure Out What You Want
- ↑ Honoring Marian Cannon Schlesinger On Her 100th Birthday
External links
- "Marian Cannon Schlesinger Remembers", www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
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