Malvina Shanklin Harlan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Malvina French Shanklin 1839 Indiana |
| Died | 1916 (aged 76-77) |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Notable work | Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911 (completed 1915, published 2001) |
| Spouse |
John Marshall Harlan "The Great Dissenter" (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
(m. 1856) |
| Children | 6, including James S. Harlan, Richard Harlan, and John Maynard Harlan |
| Relatives | John Marshall Harlan II (grandson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
Malvina French Shanklin Harlan (1839–1916), informally known as "Mallie", was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, the grandmother of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II, and the author of a 1915 memoir entitled Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911. Her memoir remained unpublished until 2001, when it was published at the instigation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.