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Marion Mahony Reconsidered by David van Zanten

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November 2011, no. 336

Marion Mahony Reconsidered by David van Zanten

University of Chicago Press, $57.95 hb, 168 pp

Marion Mahony Reconsidered by David van Zanten

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November 2011, no. 336

Marion Mahony (1870–1961) was that rare commodity in late nineteenth-century American society: a woman functioning as an equal in a professional world dominated by men. Born to progressive parents, and a household and wider circle of strong and socially engaged women, Marion Lucy Mahony was only the second woman to graduate from an American university (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1894) with a full degree in architecture, and the first to be licensed to practise under any state regulatory structure anywhere in the world (Illinois, 1898).

Alasdair McGregor reviews 'Marion Mahony Reconsidered' edited by David van Zanten

Marion Mahony Reconsidered

by David van Zanten

University of Chicago Press, $57.95 hb, 168 pp

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