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College in Crinoline and Iowa roots of Marjorie Medary
Eastern Iowa native and author Marjorie Medary grew up in Waukon, daughter of Edgar Medary, and studied at Cornell College and Northwestern. Her 1937 novel College in Crinoline portrays 1850s life at Cromwell College, with heroine Bessie Q and the ginkgo tree legend linking Cornell to Allamakee County. Medary later lived in Hampton, Connecticut, and worked for Ginn Co. in Boston before resuming writing.
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Marjorie Medary
Iowa
Uthor
Waukon
Edgar Medary
Waukon Democrat
Thomas Corwin Medary
Lansing Mirror
Allamakee Journal
Democrat
Medary
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Northwestern University
Evanston
Rhode Island
Illinois
Indianapolis
New York City
McGraw- Hill
Florida
Prairie
Anchorage
Crinoline
New York
Longmans, Green & Co
Cromwell College
Cornell
W.H. Horton
the Gazette
Cromwell
Bessie Q
Hampton
Conn
Ginn & Co
Boston