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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 2 0 Browse Search
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hened me immeasurably; and given me many steps toward maturity. He always craved books and more books, but the actual purchase of one was a luxury. With a little money sent him by his Aunt Nancy, he bought Mrs. Jameson's Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, and told his aunt, I shall write very carefully in the beginning that it was a present, so that my parishioners and friends may not think it my own extravagance, in these hard times. Certain favorite books, such as Jane Austen's novels, Scott's Pirate, and Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Mr. Higginson usually read once a year. Four years of his ministry at the Free Church had gone by when the president of the organization wrote to the clergyman's mother, that, after listening to his preaching, common sermons appear weak and stale, and our people will not go to hear them. He added that something in her son's appearance and manner called out the masses. As a matter of course the newcome