About Marion Tinling
Lived 1904 – 2006 (aged 102). Marion Tinling was an American historian.
Marion Rose Tinling ( Goble; December 17, 1904 – December 30, 2006) was an American historian, editor, and activist. She worked for the Huntington Library and Library of Congress, publishing several edited book volumes of historical documents, and she was a 1960 Guggenheim Fellow. During her early life, she worked as a social worker and non-profit founder, and published several books in women's history.
Biography Marion Rose Goble was born on December 17, 1904, in Richmond Hill, Queens. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the letters and other writings of William Byrd II of Westover, Virginia," until their divorce in 1947; they had three children, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (as co-editor, with Maude Howlett Woodfin; original by William Byrd II) Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739–1741 (1942) (as co-editor, with Louis Booker Wright; original by Robert Hunter) Quebec to Carolina in 1785–1786: Being the Travel Diary and Observations of Robert Hunter, Jr., a Young Merchant of London (1943) (as co-editor, with Godfrey Davies; original by Harry Toulmin) The Western Country in 1793: Reports on Kentucky and Virginia (1948) (as co-editor, with Louis Booker Wright; original by William Byrd II) The London Diary, 1717–1721, and Other Writings (1958) (as editor) The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684–1776 (1977) Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States (1986) (as editor) Women into the Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers (1989) (as editor) With Women's Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 1775–1918 (1993) Sacajawea's Son: The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (2001)
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Marion Tinling was born on 17 December 1904 in Richmond Hill.
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