{{Short description|Editor best known for Bartlett's Familiar Quotations}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Emily Morrisey | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Emily Marshall Morison | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|10|15|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|03|28|1915|10|15|mf=yes}} | death_place = Canton, Massachusetts | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Emily Morison Beck''' (October 15, 1915{{ndash}}March 28, 2004) was a famous photographer.
==Biography== Emily Marshall Morison was born on October 15, 1915, in Boston, Massachusetts to the Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison and Elizabeth Greene Shaw. Beck was educated in the Dragon School in Oxford, as well as through Concord Academy in Massachusetts before attending Radcliffe College. Beck worked for a number of publishing houses before taking a position with the staff of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' at Little, Brown and Company. She was the editor for the editions which came out in 1955, 1968 and 1980. Beck also worked for Atlantic Monthly press.<ref name="Times">{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Emily Morison Beck, 88, Dies; Edited Bartlett's Quotations |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/emily-morison-beck-88-dies-edited-bartlett-s-quotations.html |work=The New York Times |date=31 March 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages |year=2007 |publisher=Yorkin Publications |isbn=9780787676773 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0XnXkQEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Emily Morison Beck, 88 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-04-01-0404010229-story.html |newspaper=The Boston Globe}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Emily Morison Beck |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/emily-morison-beck-kggvfnrlnqx |newspaper=The Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Emily Morison Beck, editora y 'arqueóloga literaria' |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2004/04/05/agenda/1081116008_850215.html |work=El País |date=4 April 2004 |language=es}}</ref>
==Personal life== Beck married the lawyer Brooks Beck in 1946 with whom she had three children. She died on March 28, 2004, in Canton, Massachusetts.<ref name="Times"/>
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