Mary Marshall Papers
An inventory of her papers at the Syracuse University Archives
Finding aid created by: Cara Howe and Steffi Chappell
Date: 2014
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Finding aid created by: Cara Howe and Steffi Chappell
Date: 2014
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Summary |
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| Creator: | Marshall, Mary, 1903-2000. |
| Title: | Mary Marshall Papers |
| Dates: | 1883-1974 |
| Size: | 4 boxes (2 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | The Mary Marshall Papers contains materials relating to Marshall's work as a professor of English at Syracuse University. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Mary Hatch Marshall (1903-2000) was an American scholar and educator, and the first woman to hold a full-time professorship in English at Syracuse University.
Marshall was born in Scarborough-on-the-Hudson, New York, on May 21, 1903, to Laura Hatch Marshall and Benjamin Tinker Marshall. She received her bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in 1924, her master’s degree from Yale University in 1928, and her doctorate in English from Yale in 1932. She was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow for post-doctoral research in medieval drama from 1945 to 1947.
Marshall first taught at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, from 1924 until 1926. She also taught at Montana State College, Rockford College, and Colby College. Later in her career she held visiting professorships at Bowling Green State University, Connecticut College and Barnard College.
In 1948, Marshall became the first woman to hold a full-time professorship in English at Syracuse University, and she was named the Jesse T. Peck Professor of English Literature in 1952. She was an expert in Middle Ages and Renaissance drama as well as English drama. Courses taught by Marshall covered topics such as Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare, and 16th-century non-dramatic literature.
Marshall’s career extended beyond the campus of Syracuse University to include membership on the supervising committee of the English Institute and posts as evaluator of medieval studies for the Guggenheim Foundation and as a consultant on medieval drama for Speculum and Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA).
Marshall received the Post Standard Library Award in 1957 for ‘outstanding service to the Syracuse University library’ as part of the dedication services for the Arents Rare Book Room at Carnegie Memorial Library. She was the chair of the University Senate’s Library Committee and a founder and member of the board of Library Associates. Marshall was also a founder and the first director of the Honors Program for the College of Liberal Arts.
Marshall formally retired in 1970 but continued to teach as the Jesse T. Peck Professor Emeritus of English Literature. In 1975 she was honored as the Post Standard’s Woman of Achievement in Cultural Development, and she began teaching adult education classes at the Humanistic Studies Center of University College.
In 1978 an anonymous donation of $100,000 was made to the University to renovate a lecture room in the Hall of Languages and name the room in Marshall's honor. Mary Marshall died on September 25, 2000. A memorial service was held in her honor at Hendricks Chapel.
The Mary Marshall Papers contains a letter to Marshall from H.W. Herrington, three published articles written by Marshall, and many published works by William Shakespeare used by Marshall in her classes. The Yale Shakespeare set and the collection of Shakespeare edited by William J. Rolfe make up a large part of the collection. Also included are three other stand-alone volumes. Some of the books have quotes from the play written on their inside cover and margin notes written by either Marshall or Professor H.W. Herrington, whose name appears on the inside cover of most volumes. Many of the books hold newspaper clippings tucked within their pages.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
In addition to these papers, the Syracuse University Archives holds a clippings file and a portrait file on Mary Marshall.
Names
Marshall, Mary, 1903-2000.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching.
Syracuse University -- Faculty.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Drama -- Study and teaching.
Middle Ages -- Intellectual life.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Mary Marshall Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mary Marshall, 1984.
Processing Information
The materials have been rehoused in acid-free boxes.
Papers
| Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Articles 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence to Mary Marshall from H.W. Herrington 1974 | ||||||||||
| The Yale Shakespeare Set | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | All’s Well That Ends Well 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Antony and Cleopatra 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | As You Like It 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Comedy of Errors 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Tragedy of Coriolanus 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Tragedy of Cymbeline 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The First Part of King Henry IV 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Second Part of King Henry IV 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The First Part of King Henry the Sixth 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth 1923 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth 1923 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Life of King Henry the Eighth 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Life and Death of King John 1927 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Tragedy of King Lear 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Tragedy of King Richard the Second 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | King Richard the Third 1927 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Love’s Labours Lost 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Tragedy of Macbeth 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Measure for Measure 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Merchant of Venice 1923 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Merry Wives of Windsor 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Much Ado about Nothing 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shakespeare’s Poems 1927 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1923 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Taming of the Shrew 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Tempest 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Timon of Athens 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida 1927 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Twelfth Night or What You Will 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Winter’s Tale 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The New Hudson Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Shakespearian Synopses: Outlines or Arguments of the Plays of Shakespeare 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Tudor Shakespeare - The Tempest 1913 | ||||||||||
| Shakespeare Set Edited by William J. Rolfe | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | All’s Well that Ends Well 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Antony and Cleopatra 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Comedy of Errors 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Tragedy of Hamlet 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Julius Caesar 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | King Henry the IV: Part I 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | King Henry the IV: Part I 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | King Henry the IV: Part II 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | King Henry the Fifth 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | King Henry the Fifth 1905 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Tragedy of King Lear 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | King Richard the Second 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | King Richard the Third 1883 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Tragedy of Macbeth 1905 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Tragedy of Othello 1888 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Romeo and Juliet 1892 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Taming of the Shrew 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Twelfth Night 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | The Winter’s Tale 1896 | ||||||||||