Jessie Wilson Manning
{{Short description|American author and lecturer}}
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| birth_name = Jessie Wilson
| birth_date = October 26, 1855
| birth_place = Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date = August 30, 1947 (aged 91)
| death_place = Chariton, Iowa, U.S.
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| nationality = American
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Jessie Wilson Manning ({{nee}}, 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.{{sfn|Logan|1912|p=670}} Manning died in 1947.
Biography
Jessie Wilson was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, October 26, 1855.{{sfn|Logan|1912|p=670}} She spent her childhood and received her education in Mount Pleasant. She graduated from the Iowa Wesleyan University, in 1874.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=491}}
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, 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.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=491}} She wrote a large number of articles for the Iowa press, among them a series of literary criticism, and poems, and essays for magazines, besides stories under a pen-name.{{which|reason=What was her pen-name?|date=October 2017}} Her Chariton home was a social and literary center.
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Jessie Wilson Manning died August 30, 1947, at Chariton, Iowa.{{cite web |title=FamilySearch.org |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyDate.from=1855&q.givenName=Jessie&q.surname=Wilson%20Manning |website=www.familysearch.org |access-date=22 January 2022}}
Selected works
- The Passion of Life, 1867
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Logan|first=Mrs. John A.|title=The Part Taken by Women in American History|url=https://archive.org/details/parttakenbywome00logagoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/parttakenbywome00logagoog/page/n715 670]|edition=Public domain|year=1912|publisher=Perry-Nalle publishing Company}} }}
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n495 491]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }}
External links
{{commons category|Jessie Wilson Manning}}
{{wikisource|Woman of the Century/Jessie Wilson Manning}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Jessie Wilson Manning}}
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Category:19th-century American writers
Category:19th-century American women writers
Category:People from Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Category:American temperance activists
Category:Iowa Wesleyan University alumni
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century