Reminiscences of Emily Hartshorne Mudd : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Emily Hartshorne Mudd : oral history, 1974.

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Family background, education, marriage, children; pioneer work in development of professional marriage counseling; development of sex research in relation to marriage counseling; reform of abortion laws; Marriage Council of Philadelphia, founding, 1933, Director, 1936-37; founding member, President, American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors; professor, University of Pensylvania Medical School; trip to Soviet Union, 1945-46; work with government agencies on sex education and research; impressions of Robert L. Dickinson, Clarence Gamble, Virginia Johnson, Alfred Kinsey, Sophia Kleegman, William Masters, Abraham Stone, Hannah Stone.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Mudd, Emily H. (Emily Hartshorne), 1898-1998

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Emily Borie (Hartshorne) Mudd (EHM), marriage counselor, advocate of family planning, researcher, and educator, was born in Merion, Penn., on September 6, 1898, the daughter of Edward Yarnall and suffragist Clementina (Rhodes) Hartshorne. After entering Vassar College in 1917, she worked in the Woman's Land Army and enlisted in the nursing corps of the U.S. Army rather than return to college. A bout of typhoid interfered with her plans to become a nurse or to attend any college that...