Jennie M. Bingham Explained

Jennie M. Bingham
Nickname:	"Jennie"
Birth Name:	Jane Maria Bingham
Birth Date:	March 16, 1859
Birth Place:	Fulton, New York, U.S.
Death Date:	June 27, 1933, 74 years old
Alma Mater:	Syracuse University
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Jennie M. Bingham (March 16, 1859 – June 27, 1933) was an American writer and litterateur.^{[1] [2]}

Early life and education

Jane (nickname, "Jennie") Maria Bingham was born in Fulton, New York, March 16, 1859. She was the daughter of Jane (Mills) (1821–1894) and the Rev. Dr. Isaac Sabin Bingham (1819–1893). For decades, her father was in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Jennie's siblings were Charles, Melville, Wilbur, George, Franklin, and Mary.^[3]

As an adult, she attended Syracuse University (1896–97) as a non-graduating student.^[4]

Career

When poor health ended the possibility of teaching, Bingham started writing for a living. Her first article offered for publication was a short story entitled "A Hospital Sketch", which appeared in the Christian Union. Among her early productions was a missionary story, "A Grain of Mustard Seed" (1881) of which 8,000 copies were sold during the first six months after publication, the proceeds of which founded a home in Japan. She worked in every department of literature, book-reviewing, essay writing, fiction, poetry, Sunday-school literature and art criticism. Some of her short stories appeared in Harper's Young People. Her poetry appeared in The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review (1895).^[5] "Three Reasons", published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was prepared especially for the Young Woman's Missionary Societies.^[6]

She was the author of Annals of the Round Table (18S5), and All Glorious Within (1889), the latter a story embodying the origin and work of the International Order of the King's Daughters. The life of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G. (1899) was part of the Epworth League Reading course of 1899–1900.^[7]

Bingham was specially interested in the charities of New York City, and part of her work included visiting then and writing concerning them. The Newsboys' Lodging House, Five Points Mission, Flower Mission, Florence Night Mission, and Children's Aid Society were among her subjects. Her life was a busy one, in which literature was incidental. Bingham's home was in Herkimer, New York. Representing the New York Branch, Bingham served on the General Executive committee, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[8] She was also employed as an instructor at the Folts Mission Institute, Herkimer, New York.^[9]

Death

Jennie M. Bingham died on June 27, 1933.

Selected works

• Annals of the Round Table (18S5) (text)
• All Glorious Within (1889)
• The Picket line of missions (co-author; 1897) (text)
• The life of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G. (1899) (text)

Short stories

• "A Hospital Sketch"
• "A Grain of Mustard Seed" (1881)
• "Melissa's Successful Failure" (1901)
• "Margy's 'Holy Grail'" (1924)^[10]

Non-fiction

• "Charlotte Brontë" (Home College Series; 1883) (text)
• "Margaret Fuller" (Home College Series; 1883) (text)
• "Charles Lamb" (Home College Series; 1883) (text)
• "Question Drawer" (1899)^[11]
• "By Way of Illustration" (1899)
• "A Select Three, A Story for Standard Bearers" (1901)
• "Three Reasons" (1901)
• "Some Foreign Standard Bearers" (1901)
• "Briton Rivière" (1902)^[12]
• "French's Masterpiece" (1902)
• "Rembrandt and His Picture, 'The Anatomy Lesson'" (1902)

Poems

• "Weights and Wings"
• "November"
• "Easter Lilies"
• "Patience"

Notes and References

1. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . 84 . . BINGHAM, Miss Jennie M. .
2. Book: Herringshaw . Thomas William . Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... . 1909 . American Publishers' Association . 26 October 2022 . en.
3. Web site: Jane Maria Bingham 16 March 1859 – 27 June 1933 • MFYZ-3C2 . ident.familysearch.org . 25 October 2022.
4. Book: Syracuse University . Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University... . 1899 . 818 . 26 October 2022 . en.
5. Jennie M. Bingham, by I. A. K. . Moulton . Charles Wells . The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review . 1895 . VII . 10 . 447 . 26 October 2022 . C.W. Moulton . en.
6. Three Reasons . Woman's Missionary Friend . May 1901 . 33 . 5 . 191, 203, 208, 353 . 26 October 2022 . Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. . en.
7. New Books . North-western Christian Advocate . 1899 . 47 . 2 . 26 October 2022 . Swormstedt & Poe . en.
8. Book: Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . 1901 . Charles A. Coffin, Steam Book, and Job Printer . 3 . 26 October 2022 . en.
9. Book: Papers Read Before the Herkimer County Historical Society During the Years 1896– . 1922 . 152–59 . 5 . 27 October 2022 . en.
10. The Juniors . Presbyterian Survey . 1924 . 14 . 412–13 . 26 October 2022 . Presbyterian Publishing House . en.
11. Table of Contents . The Sunday School Journal . March 1899 . 31 . 3 . 130 . 26 October 2022 . Methodist Publishing House . en.
12. Perry . Eugene Ashton . By Jennie M. Britton . The Perry Magazine . 1902 . 5 . 87, 368, 427 . 26 October 2022 . Perry pictures Company . en.