Margaret Mead (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Margaret Mead credited her parents, Emily Fogg and Edward Sherwood Mead, and her paternal grandmother, Martha Ramsay Mead, as her primary childhood influences. They were all educators; her mother was a teacher and sociologist who was pursuing graduate work when Margaret was born, her father was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and her grandmother, who was primarily responsible for teaching Margaret, was a retired school principal. As a child, Margaret received only sporadic formal education, attending two years of kindergarten, one year of...
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