Gyles, Rose Marie (1867-1949)

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Rockford College

Jane Addams to Rose Marie Gyles, July 8, 1904

Jane Addams to Rose Marie Gyles, July 13, 1904

Jane Addams to Rose Marie Gyles, July 16, 1905

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Jane Addams to Rose Marie Gyles, July 21, 1907

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Jane Addams to Rose Marie Gyles, July 10, 1908

Jane Addams to Julia Henrietta Gulliver, July 3, 1904

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: The First Five Years at Hull-House (Second of Three Installments), April 1906

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Rose Marie Gyles to Jane Addams, June 29, 1904

Hull-House Residents Protest, ca. November 1926

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Birth Date

1868-07-29

Death Date

1949

Birthplace

Chicago, IL

Biographical Text

Rose M. Gyles was a teacher in Chicago. She attended Rockford Seminary and completed the Rockford College course of study when it transitioned in her last year. She studied and became certified in the Swedish method of gymnastics and physical education, which required a basic knowledge of human anatomy, and was an advocate for the implementation of these theories to help pinpoint physical disabilities. Gyles taught gymnastics at Hull House, where she also lived. Her advocacy and support of physical education for women were radical in a world that believed women who exercised were unhealthy physically and prone to hysteria. While living and working at Hull House, she taught English to immigrants and helped them pass the citizenship test. Gyles died in 1949.

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Settlement house resident

Teacher

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DeLora, Renee

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Szydlik, Margaret

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1904

Bibliography and Links

1910 Census

Selected Letters of Florence Kelley

Susan R. Schwendener, "Rose Marie Gyles," in Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001): 335-7.

U.S. Passport Applications

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“Gyles, Rose Marie (1867-1949),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 14, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1378.