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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, Lydia Maria child. (search)
Lydia Maria child. T. W. Higginson.
To those of us who are by twenty years or more the juniors of Mrs. Child, she presents herself rather as an object of love than of cool criticism, even if we have rarely met her face to face.
In our earliest recollections she comes before us less as author or philanthropist than as some kindly and omnipresent aunt, beloved forever by the heart of childhood, --some one gifted with all lore, and furnished with unfathomable resources,--some one discoursing equal delight to all members of the household.
In those days she seemed to supply a sufficient literature for any family through her own unaided pen. Thence came novels for the parlor, cookery-books for the kitchen, and the Juvenile Miscellany for the nursery.
In later years the intellectual provision still continued.
We learned, from her anti-slavery writings, where to find our duties; from her Letters from New York, where to seek our purest pleasures; while her Progress of religious ideas
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, Margaret Fuller Ossoli . (search)
Margaret Fuller Ossoli. T. W. Higginson.
Travelling by rail in Michigan, some ten years ago, I found myself seated next to a young Western girl, with a very intelligent face, who soon began to talk with me about literary subjects.
She afterwards gave me, as a reason for her confidence, that!
looked like one who would enjoy Margaret Fuller's writings, --these being, as I found, the object of her special admiration.
I certainly took the remark for a compliment; and it was, at any rate, a touching tribute to the woman whose intellectual influence thus brought strangers together.
Margaret Fuller is connected, slightly but firmly, with my earliest recollections.
We were born and bred in the same town (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and I was the playmate of her younger brothers.
Their family then lived at the old Brattle house, which still stands behind its beautiful lindens, though the great buildings of the University Press now cover the site of the old-fashioned garden, whose
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, The woman's rights movement and its champions in the United States . (search)