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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 2 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
ntellectual History of Woman. Of this he wrote, My magnum opus, if I can really ever get to it. For this contemplated work Colonel Higginson collected for many years all the books he could find bearing on the development of woman. The magnum opus was never really attempted, but the collection of books numbering several hundred volumes in a variety of languages was finally given to the Boston Public Library and entitled the Galatea Collection, the name being suggested by the old fable of Pygmalion and Galatea. Higginson took great interest in adding to this unique collection from time to time, being assisted in this rare pastime of buying books by an annual donation for the purpose from Mr. Carnegie. But his attention was soon turned to a different sort of history. At this time there was great need of an attractive juvenile history of the United States, and Mr. George B. Emerson, a popular Boston educator, suggested to Colonel Higginson that he should furnish such a book. To m