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Marjorie Moyca Newell

Best remembered for co-writing a lively 1904 journey through Tuscany, this American author paired a love of place with an eye for history. She is also remembered outside literary circles for helping launch the movement that led to the New York State Police.

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The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

by Anna R. Sheldon, Marjorie Moyca Newell

About the author

Marjorie Moyca Newell was an American writer best known for The Medici Balls: Seven Little Journeys in Tuscany, a 1904 book written with Anna R. Sheldon. The book follows a series of travels through Tuscany and reflects a strong interest in the Medici legacy, art, and local history.

Reliable public sources on her life are limited, but records indexed by Project Gutenberg and library listings confirm that this Tuscany travel book is the work most closely associated with her. A New York State Police history page also notes that Newell, together with Katherine Mayo, helped start the movement to create the State Police after the murder of a former employee, Sam Howell.

She was born in 1881 and died in 1968. Although much of her personal story is hard to verify in detail, the record that remains suggests a figure whose name connects both to early twentieth-century travel writing and to a lasting piece of New York civic history.