Marjorie G. Jones at Founders Hall, Haverford College, PA (Summer 2009), where she conducted research for her next biography of Mary Vaux Walcott

The author speaking at Friends of Cleopas, London, 2006

MARJORIE G. JONES, J.D. M.A.

Interested especially in the history of women, Professor Jones is the author of Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (Ibis, 2008).

Currently she is working on a biography of Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), a Quaker known as the Audubon of Botany.

In recent years she has delivered the following papers:

Out of Nowhere: The European World of Henry Hudson
McNair Scholars Convocation
Mercy College
Dobbs Ferry, NY
May 2009

Audubon of Botany: Mary Vaux Walcott & Some Interesting Intersections of History
Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Conference
Albuquerque, NM
January 2008

Frances Yates & the Hermetic Tradition
The Companions of Cleopas
London
July 2006

The Audubon of Botany: Mary Vaux Walcott & the Tradition of Women Naturalists
Phi Alpha Theta Induction
Mercy College
May 2005

The Myth of the Christian Queens: The Role of Syncretism in the Conversion of Europe
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
July 2001

Absence of Evidence (Is Not Evidence of Absence)
National Women's Study Association Annual Conference
Boston, MA
June 2000

At That Time She Was A Woman: Susan B. Anthony & the Effectiveness of Revolutionary Legalese
National Women's Study Association Annual Conference
Seneca Falls, NY
June 1998

Newton and the Alchemical Paradigm
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
March 1996

Newton and the Alchemical Paradigm
Tenth Anniversary Historical Studies Spring Conference
The Graduate Faculty
The New School for Social Research, NYC
March 1995