page_title: Henrietta A. Bingham
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Henrietta A. Bingham / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Henrietta A. Burrington
context_page_description: Henrietta A. Bingham was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and preceptress. She succeeded Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford as the editor of the Ladies' Repository and the Myrtle, and was the last editor of the Ladies' Repository.
  Bingham was born in 1841. On January 1, 1843, her mother died, leaving the children to the care of their elder half-sister, Rosalie. Bingham was precocious, easily mastering her school studies. The summer she was fourteen, she taught school in the Belden district and at sixteen, attended school at South Woodstock, Vermont. Many of her school compositions were written in verse, "Farewell Sixteen," "The Island of Dreams," and "My Mother," being of special mention.
  On leaving the academy, she spent three years in Boston, and in 1864, went to St. Lawrence University as preceptress. The next year, she wrote the prize story "Mignonette," competing with such writers as Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer and Jane Lippitt Patterson. In the spring of 1866, she married Rev. Henry Bingham, of Columbus, Wisconsin, who died the following autumn.
  In 1869, Bingham became editor of the Ladies' Repository, of the Universalist Publishing House of Boston.
caption: Henrietta A. Burrington
exif: {}