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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IX: the Atlantic Essays (search)
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 decided to insert it. In the diary of 1890, Mr. Higginson wrote, Much gratified at letter from Miss Eastman telling me from Dr.——that my Ought Women was really the seed of Smith College. A further tribute to the value of this essay came to the author in a letter from a thoughtful friend, who said, I think it was one of the influences that opened Michigan University to women, and has now invited a woman professor on the same terms as men. The anonymousness of the Atlantic essays caused some amusing mistakes, as when Mrs. C. H. Dall was many times congratulated on having written Mademoiselle<