Career
Doane was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1881, in Boston, to be Congregationalist teacher in Turkey.[4][5] She remained there from 1881 to 1825, serving first in Marash (Maraş), and later at a school in the Gedik Pasha (Gedikpaşa) quarter in Constantinople.[6][7][8] The Gedik Pasha station offered meetings and vocational training for women, in addition to Bible lessons for men and women, a coffeehouse, public lectures, and a school for children and youths.[9][10][11]
Marden spoke about her work at a statewide women's mission gatherings in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota in 1902 and 1903.[12][13][14] In 1910 she sailed from Liverpool to Boston on the Lusitania,[15] and in 1910 and 1911 Marden toured in the United States with other American missionary women,[16] including Jennie V. Hughes, Helen Barrett Montgomery, and Mary Riggs Noble, to speak at jubilee celebrations in various cities.[17][18] She left Constantinople to spend a health leave in Switzerland in the summer of 1917,[19] and was giving lectures in the United States the following spring.[20]
Marden moved to southern California when she retired from Turkey in 1925. She spoke on her experiences at church events in California during her retirement.[21] She wrote to the editors of the Los Angeles Times to protest unsubstantiated information they published about "Turkish harems".[22] She donated an example of Turkish embroidery to the Art Institute of Chicago.[23]
