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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A plea for culture. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Literature as an art. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Americanism in literature. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
Mademoiselle's campaigns.
The scene and the actors.
The heroine of this tale is one so famous in history that her proper name never appears in it. The seeming paradox is the soberest fact.
To us Americans, glory lies in the abundant display of one's personal appellation in the newspapers.
Our heroine lived in the most gossiping of all ages, herself its greatest gossip; yet her own name, patronymic or baptismal, never was talked about.
It was not that she sunk that name beneath high-sounding titles; she only elevated the most commonplace of all titles till she monopolized it and it monopolized her. Anne Marie Louise d'orleans, Souveraine de Dombes, Princesse Dauphine d'auvergne, Duchesse de Montpensier, is forgotten, or rather was never remembered; but the great name of Mademoiselle, La Grande Mademoiselle, gleams like a golden thread shot through and through that gorgeous tapestry of crimson and purple which records for us the age of Louis Quatorze.
In May of the year 1
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, On an old Latin text-book. (search)