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Margaret Farrand Thorp : ウィキペディア英語版 | Margaret Farrand Thorp
Margaret Farrand Thorp (1891–1970) was an author, English professor, and journalist. Thorp published six books, including five biographies. She is most noted for her 1939 work ''America at the Movies'' and her 1949 work ''Female Persuasion: Six Strong-Minded Women''. ==Early life and education==
Thorp was born to Wilson Farrand and Margaret Walker Farrand in East Orange, New Jersey on December 3, 1891. She was a niece of history professor Max Farrand, public health advocate Livingston Farrand, and landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Thorp, Willard, 1899-1990 )〕 Thorp's father, Wilson, served as the headmaster of Newark Academy in Newark, New Jersey and as a Board Member of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. He helped found the College Entrance Examination Board. (Wilson Farrand also authored the book, ''A brief history of the Newark academy, 1774-1792-1916''.) In 1909, Thorp graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School), a country day preparatory school in Orange, New Jersey. She then completed a bachelor's degree at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1914. Thorp earned her master's degree at Smith College in 1926〔 and her Ph.D. at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1934. Smith awarded her an honorary doctorate of letters in 1957.
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