About Marilyn Porter Marilyn Porter is professor emerita of sociology at Memorial University. Books by Marilyn Porter Creating This Place Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950 edited by Linda Cullum & Marilyn Porter Weather's Edge A Compendium of Women's Lives in Newfoundland and Labrador by (author) Carmelita McGrath, Linda Cullum & Marilyn Porter Their Lives and Times edited by Carmelita McGrath, Barbara Neis & Marilyn Porter