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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 18 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 17 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 13 9 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 10 2 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 4 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 2 2 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
e, and to bed 10 1/2– 11 regularly. Thus you see our life is systematic and simple—the aforesaid three-handed whist is as great a blessing as Homeopathy. The Brookline stay was eventful, because under new influences Wentworth Higginson rapidly developed and matured. There was a large circle of relatives within a radius of a few miles, and he took part in their frequent meetings and merrymakings. It was in Brookline that he first met his second cousin, Mary Channing, daughter of Dr. Walter Channing, and sister of the Concord poet, Ellery Channing. A few years older than himself, unworldly, intellectual, and brilliant in conversation, she proved a congenial companion. She was a frequent visitor at the Perkins homestead, and after an acquaintance of a few months the cousins became engaged, Higginson being then a youth of nineteen. One of the absorbing interests of his little world at this time was magnetism, various members of the circle trying experiments upon each other. N
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
tribute to Wentworth's mother is taken from a letter to Miss Channing:— I think mother is one of the most fascinating ppplicants. I was surprised and provoked at first; and Mr. Channing who told me seemed surprised and sorry at my appearing es n't do for a sober person even to think of them. Miss Channing was a disciple of James Freeman Clarke, and Higginson wt and tea dishes. I feel very proud of it, he wrote to Miss Channing. You should hear the water sizzle! I could brew rum p on food in a fortnight. He usually dined on Sunday at Dr. Channing's in Boston, but bread and milk formed his principal dit meant for a lesson for me. In his long letters to Miss Channing, Higginson freely expressed his opinion on public questvisitation address on Clergy and Reform, 1847, he wrote Miss Channing:— I cannot tell you what a sensation my yesterdaygoing to electrify the world. . . . Finally Uncle George [Channing] has offered to insert it whole in the Christian World. .
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
lice, 130. Cary, P$hoebe, 130. Chalmers, Thomas, described, 339. Channing, Barbara, on rescue of Sims, 112. Channing, Ellery, 48; on literary profits, 51. Channing, Francis (Lord Channing of Wellingborough), reception at, 350. Channing, Mary E., engaged to T. W. Higginson, 48; T. W. Higginson's letters to, 56, 57, 73, 75, 83; Higginson dedicates journal to, 67; and James Freeman Clarke, 68; marriage, 85. See also Higginson, Mary Channing. Channing, Rev. W. H., 85. Channing, Dr., Walter, 48, 70. Charge with Prince Rupert, A, 156, 408. Cheerful Yesterdays, 148, 159, 190, 312. 326, 341, 384, 387, 421-23; work on, 382; Higginson's summary of, 387, 388. Child, Lydia Maria, 68; Higginson reviews book of, 65, 66; his memoir of, 279. Clarke, Mrs., daughter of John Bright, 360. Clarke, Dr., Edward, 23. Clarke, James Freeman, influence of, 68, 85. Cleveland, Grover, impression of, 309. Coleridge, Lord, and Higginson, 360. Coleridge, E. Hartley, and Hig