Millicent Todd Bingham

Millicent Todd Bingham (1880–1968) was an American geographer and the first woman to receive a doctorate in geology and geography from Harvard. She was also a leading expert on the poet Emily Dickinson.

Millicent attended Mrs. Stearns' School in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Miss Hersey's School for Girls in Boston, founded by Heloise Hersey, before beginning her university studies at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was awarded an A.B. in liberal arts in 1902. For a short time, she became an instructor of French, first at Vassar (1902–1904) and then at Wellesley College (1906–1907). During her years of travels with her family, she studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris (1905–1906), and at the University of Berlin (1909–1910). ) However, for more than 30 years, because of her complex relationships with members of the Dickinson family, Mabel declined to publish any of the poems or letters in her possession.

Selected works Bingham published works on subjects that included geography, Emily Dickinson, psychology, friends and family. Bingham, Millicent Todd. Peru: A Land of Contrasts. Little, Brown, and Company, 1914. Blanchard, Raoul, and Millicent Todd Bingham (translator). Geography of France. Rand McNally, 1919. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Solar eclipse photography." Popular Astronomy 31 (1923): 631. Vidal de La Blache, Paul, Emmanuel de Martonne, and Millicent Todd Bingham (translator). "Principles of human geography." (1926). Bingham, Millicent Todd. Mabel Loomis Todd, Her Contributions to the Town of Amherst. Priv. print.[George Grady Press], 1935. Todd, Mabel Loomis, and Millicent Todd Bingham. Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Bingham, Millicent Todd, and Emily Dickinson. "Poems of Emily Dickinson: Hitherto Published Only in Part." New England Quarterly (1947): 3–50. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Miami: A Study in Urban Geography." Tequesta 9 (1948): 73–107. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Emily Dickinson's Handwriting—A Master Key." New England Quarterly (1949): 229–234. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Beyond psychology." Homo sapiens auduboniensis: A tribute to Walter Van Dyke Bingham (1953): 5–29. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Prose Fragments of Emily Dickinson." New England Quarterly (1955): 291–318. Bingham, Millicent Todd. Emily Dickinson's Home: The Early Years as Revealed in Family Correspondence and Reminiscences. New York, Dover, 1955. Todd, Mabel Loomis, and Millicent Todd Bingham. The Thoreau Family Two Generations Ago.(Foreword and Footnotes by Millicent Todd Bingham.)[With a Portrait.]. Berkeley Heights, NJ, 1958. Bingham, Millicent Todd. "Key West in the Summer of 1864." The Florida Historical Quarterly 43.3 (1965): 262–265. Bingham, Millicent Todd. Ancestors' Brocades: The Literary Discovery of Emily Dickinson, the Editing and Publication of Her Letters and Poems. Vol. 1773. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.