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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
g in my commencement oration. Yet it is a curious fact that I owe indirectly to a single remark made by my mother all the opening of my eyes to the intellectual disadvantages of her sex. There came to Cambridge a very accomplished stranger, Mrs. Rufus King, of Cincinnati, Ohio, -afterward Mrs. Peter,--who established herself there about 1837, directing the college training of a younger brother, two sons, and two nephews. No woman in Cambridge was so highly educated; and once, as she was making some criticisms at our house upon the inequalities between the sexes, my mother exclaimed in her ardent way, But only think, Mrs. King, what an education you have obtained. Yes, was the reply, but how did I obtain it? Then followed a tale almost as pathetic as that told in Mrs. Somerville's autobiography, of her own early struggles for knowledge. I cannot now recall what she said, but it sank into my heart, at the age of fifteen or thereabouts; and if I have ever done one thing to secure t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
eculiarly fascinating circle of young people,--more gifted, I cannot help thinking, than any later coterie of the same kind,--which seemed to group itself round James Lowell and Maria White, his betrothed, who were known among the members as their King and Queen. They called themselves The brothers and sisters, being mainly made up in that way: the Whites of Watertown and their cousins the Thaxters; the Storys from Cambridge; the Hales and the Tuckermans from Boston; the Kings from Salem, and os ballads in her own handwriting; and I still know by heart a letter which she wrote to Thaxter, about the delay in her marriage,--It is easy enough to be married; the newspaper comers show us that, every day; but to live and to be happy as simple King and Queen, without the gifts of fortune, this is a triumph that suits my nature better. Probably all the atmosphere around this pair of lovers had a touch of exaggeration, a slight greenhouse aroma, but it brought a pure and ennobling enthusiasm;
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
Jones, Sammy, 334. Jonson, Ben, 3. Jouffroy, T. S., 86. Kansas and John Brown, 196-234. Kant, Immanuel, 105. Keats, John, 19, 67. Keene, Charles, 290. Kelley, Abby, 327. Kemp, Mr., 148, 151. Keppel, Augustus, 166. King, Edward, 312. King family, the, 75. King, Mrs. Rufus, 17. Kingsley, Charles, 107, 276. Kirkland, J. T., 6. Kraitsir, Charles, 86, 93. Krummacher, F. A., III. Lamartine, A. M. L. de, 309, 310. Lamennais, H. F. R., Abbe de, 92, 93, 160. Lander, F. WKing, Mrs. Rufus, 17. Kingsley, Charles, 107, 276. Kirkland, J. T., 6. Kraitsir, Charles, 86, 93. Krummacher, F. A., III. Lamartine, A. M. L. de, 309, 310. Lamennais, H. F. R., Abbe de, 92, 93, 160. Lander, F. W., 264. Lander, Jean M., Mrs., 264, 265. Landor, W. S., 24, IOs, 112, 298. Lane, G. M., 53. Lane, J. H., 203, 204, 207, 208, 219, 230. Lang, Andrew, 273. Lanmer, Sidney, 230. Laplace, Marquis de, 50, 51. Lamed, Mr., 83. Laura, 76. Lazarus, Emma, 314. Le Barnes, J. W., 231, 232, 240. Lee, Mrs., Thomas, 87. Leighton, Caroline (Andrews), 129. Leland, C. G., 312, 314. Leroux, Pierre, 86. Lewes, Mrs. (George Eliot), 219. Lincoln, Abraham, 239, 261. Linnaeus, Charles von, 89,