Marjorie G. Jones with her Research Assistant Jonathan Jones at launch of In the Cards, Philadelphia, October 2018.

At Mt. Cuba, Hockessin, DE

At the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Canada.

Marjorie G. Jones speaks about Mary Vaux Walcott’s reports to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference in Denver, November 2010

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 about Frances Yates & the Hermetic Tradition at Friends of Cleopas, London, 2006

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

Recently she has delivered the following papers:

Audubon of Botany: Philadelphia Quaker Mary Vaux Walcott
Friends in the City (via ZOOM)
Philadelphia, PA
May, 2021

Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: The Relationship Between Biography and Fiction
Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar (via ZOOM)
New York City
December 2020

Common Ground: Wheaton at the Arch Street Meeting
Arch Street meeting House, Philadelphia
November, 2019

Tarot and the Hermetic Tradition
Philadelphia City Institute
March, 2019

Romance in Bloom
Mt. Cuba Center
Hockessin, DE
May, 2018

Revelatory Intersections and Rich Sources: The Botanical Art of Mary Vaux Walcott
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve
New Hope, PA
January, 2018

Illustrating History:
The Botanical Art of Mary Vaux Walcott
Pennsylvania Society of Botanical Artists (BSBI)
Jenkins Arboretum
Devon, PA
October, 2017

MIA at PMA: Mary Vaux Walcott’s Place Among Philadelphia Watercolorists
Cathedral Village
Philadelphia, Pa.
April 2017

Unpretentious Pragmatism: The Western Travels of Mary Vaux Walcott & Co.
Whyte Museum
Banff, Canada
August 2016

Intersections and Patterns: The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Arnold Arboretum
Boston, MA
July 2016

Daring Spiritual Adventures
Commemorating Frances Yates & The Art of Memory
Rose Theatre, Kingston University, London
April 2016

Our Marys
Henry Foundation for Botanical Research
Gladwyne PA
January 2016

With Mary
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
December 2015

Three R's - Repentance, Redemption, Rehabilitation - the Merits of Prison Education
Ethical Humanist Association of Philadelphia
December 2015

The Joy of Sympathetic Companionship: The Correspondence of Mary Vaux Walcott & First Lady Lou Henry Hoover
Franklin Inn Club
Philadelphia, PA
June 2013

Indigenous Americans & Quaker Women: Mary Vaux Walcott & the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado
November 2010

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

Interested especially in women’s spiritual journeys, Marjorie has published the following articles:

The Correspondence of Mary Vaux Walcott and Lou Henry Hoover
Friends Historical Association Bulletin
Spring 2014

Review of Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers by Jill Norgren (NYU Press, 2013) in The Voice of Experience, a publication of the American Bar Association, Fall 2013.

Bowling Along: Early Travel Adventures of Mary Morris Vaux
Quaker History, the bulletin of the Friends Historical Association, Spring 2011.