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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
ls, declaring that The only true free man is he who can live on a little. In after years, he called this stay the Maytime of his life, which he, however, qualified by adding, The present is not beautiful until overhung with the mosses and veiled in the shadows of the Past. . . . I think the free communion with Nature in past years has done much for my mental health. Those long afternoons in the woods with no care, no solicitude as to time and place, no companion but my tin box. . . . That Bigelow's Botany of mine is the most precious book I have—not a page of it but is redolent of summer sounds, senses and images. But he never became reconciled to his work, and wrote in November: To Teaching I have an utter and entire aversion—I love children passionately and am able to attach them and to discipline them, but I am not fitted for an intellectual guide and I hate the office; and added I read the Theory of Teaching (which put me in despair). The school was often held out of doors,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
Illustrated by Irene E. Jerome. Cambridge Public Library: Plan reported to the Book Committee. Pph. Cambridge: Literature. (In Hurd, comp. History of Middlesex County, vol. I.) Opening Address. (In Browning Society of Boston. Memorial to Robert Browning, Jan. 28.) A World Literature. (In Century Magazine, Jan.） Letter Relating to the Cambridge Public Library. (In Cambridge Tribune, March 15.) Richard Henry Dana. (In Cambridge Tribune, Dec. 20.) （Ed. with Mrs. Ellen H. Bigelow.) American Sonnets. Preface by Higginson. （Ed. with Mrs. Mabel L. Todd.) Poems, by Emily Dickinson. Preface by Higginson. 1891 Life of Francis Higginson. (In Makers of America.) On the Steps of the Hall (University Hall, Aug. 28, 1837). Privately printed. Leaflet. Poem inscribed to the class of 1841, Harvard University. Address at the 100th Anniversary, Jan 24. (In Massachusetts Historical Society. Proceedings.) Landmarks of Progress. Address at the 40th Anniv<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
ddaughter of T. W. H., 394, 395. Barney, Margaret Higginson, daughter of T. W. H. See Higginson, Margaret Waldo. Barney, Wentworth Higginson, grandson of T. W. H., 394. Bartol, Rev. Cyrus A., honors Higginson, 148, 149. Beecher, Henry Ward, described, 97; account of, 131, 321; later impression of, 309, 310. Bentzon, Madame, Th. (Mme. Blanc), writes A Typical American, 386, 387. Bernhardt, Sarah, Higginson first sees, 342, 343. Besant, Mrs., Annie, trial of, 329, 330. Bigelow, Mrs. Ella H., edits sonnets with Higginson, 319. Blanc, Louis, 340. Book and Heart, 386, 421. Boston Authors' Club, 315, 391, 399. Boston Radical Club, 267, 268. Bradlaugh, Charles, Higginson hears, 324; and Besant trial, 330. Bridgman, Laura, account of, 97. Brook Farm, described, 49. Brown, Rev., Antoinette, 134, 135. Brown, John, 204: Higginson first meets, 190; plans postponed, 191-93; imprisonment, 193; attempt to secure counsel for, 193, 194; John Brown Collect