Leviathan: The Record of a Struggle and a Triumph by Jeanette Marks

***Scarce, highly reviewed and highly moving memoir by a college professor struggling with opium addiction and her own personal demons to find meaning and purpose in her life.***

Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1913. In original red cloth with gold lettering. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 329 pages.

OVERALL CONDITION: Very Good

Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. She is the namesake of the Jeannette Marks Cultural Center (formerly known as the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Community Center), which provides support and programming for LGBT students and allies.

Marks attended boarding schools in Europe the United States. She then attended Dana Hall School and Wellesley College. In 1899 she met Mary Emma Woolley, a Wellesley professor, with whom she entered into a relationship that lasted 48 years. In 1900, she earned a Bachelor's degree and three years later she received her Masters.

From 1901 to 1939, Marks was at Mount Holyoke College, where she was a professor of English Literature. She founded a lecture series to discuss modern literature at the college named the Play and Poetry Shop Talks, which featured established poets and authors. She also founded the Laboratory Theatre in 1928, where she was its director until 1941.

Condition: VERY GOOD

Firm hinges and joints, spine lean. Boards are colorful, lightly sunned spine, some dust soiling to boards and page edges, rubbing to spine tips and bumped corners. Pages and page edges are age-toned. Some abrasion to paper on front hinge, former owner initials embossed on front flyleaf along with a former bookstore stamp. There is a staple mark also on front flyleaf where a card with a Christmas gift inscription was fastened (card included inside a polypropylene bag). No writing inside. Text block is generally quite clean with a few smudge marks on the last few pages.

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