Margery Bailey

Margery Bailey (May 12, 1891 - June 17, 1963) was a professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature at Stanford University.

[4] Her students included John Steinbeck, Laird Doyle, Waldo Salt, Archie Binns,[5] Anita M. Caspary, IHM and Angus Bowmer, who later founded the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

[2] Middle of the 1930s, she established the Stanford University Dramatists’ Alliance and founded a Shakespearian Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[2] She wrote three books illustrated by Alice Bolam Preston: Seven Peas in the Pod (1920), The Little Man with One Shoe (1921) and Whistle for Good Fortune (1940).

[10] She corresponded with John P. Marquand, Clarence Darrow, Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Irvin S. Cobb, Harold Bell Wright, Helen Keller and Gregory Peck.

He was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin, but a team of Stanford colleagues, including his sister Margaret, stepped in to form the Lamson Defense Committee.