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Marian Cannon Schlesinger

Marian Cannon Schlesinger was a painter and author living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the wife of Kennedy aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Articles by this Author

As newlyweds in 1901 they were the first to climb the towering Montana peak, but when evidence of the feat surfaced after eighty-four years, nobody believed it
The author recalls two generations of “Cliffie” life—hers and her mother’s—in the years when male and female education took place on opposite sides of the Cambridge Common and women were expected to wear hats in Harvard Square