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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 9 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 8 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 5 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
f surprised glance— Well, are you still here? Is there no end to you? As the year of solitary study drew to a close, the young recluse began to consider the importance of being regularly authorized to preach and the desirableness of being associated with a special set of young men. These views were reinforced by a strong appeal from his class to rejoin them. He heard the class exercises when his special friends, Johnson, —whom he calls my young hero and prophet,— Longfellow, and O. B. Frothingham were graduated, and Johnson's oration on this occasion had a profound effect upon him. He felt a strong desire to speak himself on next Visitation Day on the Relation of the Clergy to Reform. In August, 1846, Higginson had a long talk with Dr. Francis, then dean of the school, about reentering his class, which resulted in a letter to the Faculty of Theology, applying for readmission. In this the writer, speaking of himself in the third person, explains his reason for withdrawal—th
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
of the Atlantic attracted a great deal of attention. A Charge with Prince Rupert was considered one of the most brilliant of these early papers; while the first one, Saints and their Bodies, so impressed Dr. D. A. Sargent, afterward director of the Harvard Gymnasium, that he was led to adopt physical training as a profession. In reference to one of the essays, Woman and the Alphabet, This article was also published as a tract under the title Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet? Rev. O. B. Frothingham wrote to ask the author if it was abstinence from soups—and salt—and pastry that enabled him to write such papers. Tell me how much liquid, he asked, I must exchange for such a flow of thoughts—how much pepper must be forsaken to leave such spice of wit? How much pie crust must be sacrificed for such a crispness of style? This striking essay was at first considered by James Russell Lowell, then editor of the Atlantic Monthly, as too radical for that magazine, but he afterwards dec<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
avy during the War of 1861-65. Vol. I. Prefatory note. (In Aspinwall. Short Stories for Short People.) The School of Jingoes. (In Essays from the Chap-Book.) Life in Cambridge Town. (In Gilman, ed. Cambridge of 1896.) Octavius Brooks Frothingham. (In New World, March.) A Keats Manuscript. (In Forum, June.) Same. (In his Book and Heart. 1897.) The Romance of a Brown-Paper Parcel. (In Century Magazine, Aug.） A Bookshelf in the Kitchen. (In Ladies' Home Journal, N Boston Herald, Oct. 11, 1900. The Reoccupation of Jacksonville in 1893. (In Mass. Commandery of the Loyal Legion. Civil War Papers, vol. 2.) Addresses and Remarks. (In Free Religious Association. Proceedings, 1867-1900.) Octavius Brooks Frothingham. (In Prophets of Liberalism: Six Addresses before the Free Religious Association of America. Pph.) Education and the Public Library. [Typewritten.] (Boston Public Library. Free Lectures, 1900.) Articles. (In Independent, Outlo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
isit to, 266; influence of, 270; Concord celebration for, 390. Epictetus, 263, 329, 365, 369, 409. Faneuil Hall. meetings at, 144. Farragut, Admiral, 260, 261. Fayal and the Portuguese, 164, 408. Fields, James T., 229, 275, 280; letter to, 277. Forbes, Hugh, threatens Brown's plans, 191, 200. Francis, Dr., 78. Free Religious Association, 398; Higginson's address at, 164; his activity in, 268; similar English organization, 336, 337. Free Soil Party, 89-91, 115. Frothingham, O. B., 78; on Higginson's style, 156. Froude, J. A., 323. Fugitive Slave Law, 111, 114, 144, 148. Future Life, The, in In After Days, 254, 428. Galatea Collection founded by Higginson at Boston Public Library, 284. Galton, Francis, and Higginson, 328. Garrison, William Lloyd, favors disunion, 181; estimate of, 202. Geary, Gov., 172, 174; account of, 176. Gladstone, W. E., Higginson meets, 324. Grant, Judge, Robert, poem for Col. Higginson's birthday, 391. Grant, G