Jessie Wilson Manning (, Wilson; October 26, 1855 – August 30, 1947) was an American author and lecturer. She was an active worker and eloquent speaker on literary subjects and for the cause of
temperance. Manning died in 1947.
Biography
Jessie Wilson was born in
Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 9,274 in the 2020 census, an increase from 8,668 in the 2010 census. It was founded in 1835 by pioneer Presley Saunders.
History
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, October 26, 1855. She spent her childhood and received her education in Mount Pleasant. She graduated from the
Iowa Wesleyan University
Iowa Wesleyan University was a private university in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. It was Iowa's first co-educational institution of higher learning and the oldest of its type west of the Mississippi River. The institution was affiliated ...
, in 1874.
Manning entered the held of platform work immediately after graduation, and was for five years a speaker on literary subjects and for the cause of
temperance. In the fall of 1889, she married Eli Manning, of
Chariton, Iowa
Chariton ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Lucas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,193 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census. Chariton is the primary distribution center for and the former corporate headquarters ...
, prominent in business and political circles in that State. Since her marriage, Manning devoted herself to her home and family of three sons. Her first book, published in 1887, titled ''Passion of Life'', was her most ambitious work and achieved a moderate success. She wrote a large number of articles for the
Iowa
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press, among them a series of literary criticism, and poems, and essays for magazines, besides stories under a pen-name. Her Chariton home was a social and literary center.
Jessie Wilson Manning died August 30, 1947, at Chariton, Iowa.
Selected works
* ''The Passion of Life'', 1867
References
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19th-century American writers
19th-century American women writers
1855 births
1947 deaths
People from Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Writers from Iowa
American temperance activists
Iowa Wesleyan University alumni
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century