biography
| name: |
Bingham, Millicent
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née Todd
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pronunciation:
[bingham]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1880–1968)
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| biography:
| Geographer and litterateur, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She studied at Harvard, and travelled widely, publishing Peru, Land of Contrasts in 1914. Her interest in urban geography later led to her translation of Vidal de la Blanche's Principles of Human Geography (1926). After her marriage in 1920 to the psychologist Walter Van Dyke Bingham, she spent summers on a family-owned island in Maine where, in 1936, they allowed the Audubon Society to establish the first camp for adult conservation leaders. From the 1930s, following the lead of her mother, Mabel Loomis Todd (1856–1932), who had published the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson, she became an authority on this author, and wrote Ancestors' Brocades: the Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson (1945). |
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