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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
days in advance. I should add that he taught us to write from copies set by himself in a clear and beautiful handwriting, and that we were supposed to learn something of history by simply reading aloud in class from Russell's Modern Europe; this being, after all, not so bad a way. It must not be forgotten that he bestowed a positive boon upon us by producing a Latin grammar of his own, so brief and simple that when I was afterwards called upon to administer to pupils the terrible manual of Andrews and Stoddard, it seemed to me, as indeed it has always since seemed, a burden too intolerable to be borne. French was taught by his eldest daughter, an excellent woman, though she sometimes had a way of tapping little boys on the head with her thimble; and mathematics we received from a succession of Harvard students, thimbleless. For a time, one fair girl, Mary Story — William Story's sister, and afterwards Mrs. George Ticknor Curtis --glided in to her desk in the corner, that she might
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
ommittee and organizing public evening schools, then a great novelty. The place was, and is, a manufacturing town, and I had a large and intelligent class of factory girls, mostly American, who came to my house for reading and study once a week. In this work I enlisted a set of young maidens of unusual ability, several of whom were afterward well known to the world: Harriet Prescott, afterward Mrs. Spofford; Louisa Stone, afterward Mrs. Hopkins (well known for her educational writings); Jane Andrews (author of The seven little sisters, a book which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese); her sister Caroline, afterward Mrs. Rufus Leighton (author of Life at Puget sound, ) and others not their inferiors, though their names were not to be found in print. I have never encountered elsewhere so noteworthy a group of young women, and all that period of work is a delightful reminiscence. My youthful coadjutors had been trained in a remarkably good school, the Putnam Free School, ke
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
Alger, W. R., 105. Allston, Washington, 45. American Reforms, largely of secular origin, 116. Anderson, Mary, 287. Andrew, J. A., 106, 243, 246, 247, 248. Andrews and Stoddard, 21. Andrews, Jane, 129. Andromeda, 89. Aper, a Roman orator, 361. Aristophanes, 301. Arnold, Matthew, 272, 282, 283. Aspinwall, AugustAndrews, Jane, 129. Andromeda, 89. Aper, a Roman orator, 361. Aristophanes, 301. Arnold, Matthew, 272, 282, 283. Aspinwall, Augustus, 125. Atchison, D. R., 213. Athletic exercises, influence of, 59. Atlantic Circle of Authors, the, 168, 187. Atlantic Club, the, 172, 176. Austin, Mrs., Sarah, 359. Autobiography, Obstacles to, x. Autolycus, in Winter's tale, quoted, 64. Avis, John, 234. Bachi, Pietro, 17, 55. Bacon, Sir, Francis, 58. Baker,. 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, 92. literary
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
he doom touchingly recorded by Hans Andersen in the story of the Fir tree (ours was a pine); . . . Jane The eldest of this remarkable group of sisters was Miss Jane Andrews, author of a juvenile book called Seven Little Sisters, which was translated into Chinese and Japanese. and Caroline went with me to the evening school and taught with their wonted energy; Mrs. Andrews doubtless sat up till after midnight, as usual, sewing for her own children or somebody's else, while Mr. Andrews read the Newburyport Herald or talked on in a low, monotonous undertone, or locked doors and windows twice over and then retired. Mr. Higginson's outspoken views on slMr. Andrews read the Newburyport Herald or talked on in a low, monotonous undertone, or locked doors and windows twice over and then retired. Mr. Higginson's outspoken views on slavery finally led to his resignation. Newburyport, September, 1849 This letter opens very much like any other letter, but it has some novel things to say — things which affect Mary's and my own coming days, which are cloud and sunshine as one chooses to see them. We think them sunshine, and so we hope and trust will you, when
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
Index. A Adirondacks, journey to, 120-24. Agnew, John, 74. Alcott, A. Bronson, 227. Alma-Tadema, Laurence, description of, 286, 287, 303. Amberleys, the, 258; at Newport, 225-27. Andrew, John A., War Governor of Massachusetts, 161, 162, 256. Andrews, Jane and Caroline, 17,18, and note, 241, 242. Anti-slavery, policy, 157-59. Appleton, Thomas G., 147; sketch of, 272-74. Army Life in a Black Regiment, 185, 219. Arnold, Matthew, in America, 323, 324; fame of, 333. Astors, the J. J., 266, 267. Atlantic Monthly, the, authors' dinner, 106-10, 112; editorship of, 111, 112; criticized, 112-14. Austin, William, 334. B Baltimore, Md., men killed at, 155. Barnum, P. T., 80, 81. Beecher, Henry Ward, description of, 45-48; compared with Parker, 46, 47, 53. Bigelow, Luther, 171, 175. Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 111. Blackwell, Henry B., 60-63. Boston Authors' Club, 233. Bowens, the, of Baltimore, 165. Bradford, George P., 259, 260. Brook
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.), Chapter 7: books for children (search)
s they cover; Noah Brooks's Boy Emigrants exhibits frontier life accurately; John Bennett's Master Skylark belongs to the highest type of historical juvenile. The informational path trod first by Goodrich and Abbott grew to be the main road for future juveniles. Today the How to make books are perhaps the most distinctive, as they are among the best-selling. What probably remains the most distinguished treatment for young children of foreign life and scenes and of nature was given by Jane Andrews (1833-87) in her Seven little sisters (1861) and Stories mother nature told. She was the pioneer of the great crowd of present-day nature writers for children and still compares in dignity and interest of treatment with all her successors. Of these, those who steer warily between the scientific and lifeless and the sentimental and the superficial are still living. In less philosophical or imaginative setting, the books of actual adventure by Paul du Chaillu deserve mention. The revo