Etta Doane Marden

[2][3] Doane was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1881, in Boston, to be Congregationalist teacher in Turkey.

[4][5] She remained there from 1881 to 1825, serving first in Marash (Maraş), and later at a school in the Gedik Pasha (Gedikpaşa) quarter in Constantinople.

[12][13][14] In 1910 she sailed from Liverpool to Boston on the Lusitania,[15] and in 1910 and 1911 Marden toured in the United States with other American missionary women,[16] including Jennie V. Hughes, Helen Barrett Montgomery, and Mary Riggs Noble, to speak at jubilee celebrations in various cities.

[17][18] She left Constantinople to spend a health leave in Switzerland in the summer of 1917,[19] and was giving lectures in the United States the following spring.

[21] She wrote to the editors of the Los Angeles Times to protest unsubstantiated information they published about "Turkish harems".

Seven white women (three seated, four standing) posed for a group photograph. They are all wearing long skirts and large hats. Several are wearing suit jackets.
American women missionaries speaking at jubilee celebrations in 1911. Front row: Florence Miller, Helen Barrett Montgomery , Jennie V. Hughes ; Back row: Mary Riggs Noble , Etta Doane Marden, Mrs. W. T. Elmore, and Mary E. Carleton.