Jeannette Augustus Marks

Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes between the parental properties in Philadelphia and Westport, New York.

Marks attended boarding schools in Europe and the United States. In 1900, she earned a bachelor's degree and three years later she earned her Masters'. She also founded the Laboratory Theatre in 1928, where she was its director until 1941.

Later life and death Marks lived in Westport, New York with Woolley. Marks died in Westport, New York, on March 15, 1964, and is buried there at Hillside Cemetery.

Works

Marks is the author of:

Illustrations by Edith Brown.

Co-authored with Julia Moody. Co-authored with Adrian J. Iorio, illustrations by Anna Whelan Betts. Co-authored with Julia Moody

Co-authored with Mary Emma Woolley.

Co-authored with George H. Doran.

A biography of the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Other authors include Jeannette Augustus Marks, Arthur Hopkins, Oscar Monroe Wolff, Eugene Pillot, David Pinski, Hermann Sudermann, Beulah Bornstead, August Strindberg, Lady Gregory, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Percy MacKaye, Alfred Kreymborg, J. M. Barrie, Paul Hervieu, Bosworth Crocker, George Middleton, Althea Thurston, and Paul Green.