author
Jean Bingham Wilson
An early 20th-century novelist whose work explored the crossroads between education, independence, and family life. She is best remembered today for a collaborative college novel that captures the hopes and pressures facing young women of its era.
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When she came home from college
by Marian Hurd McNeely, Jean Bingham Wilson
About the author
Little is firmly documented online about this author, but surviving library and public-domain records show that she co-wrote When She Came Home from College, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1909 with Marian Hurd McNeely and illustrations by George Gibbs.
That novel has had an unusually long afterlife for such an obscure work: it appears in major library catalogs, public-domain collections, and modern reprints, suggesting continued interest in its portrait of college life and the transition back into home and society.
Because reliable biographical information about her seems scarce, it is safest to remember her through the work itself: a writer connected with early American fiction about educated young women and the social choices waiting for them after graduation.