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Higginson was an American writer, Unitarian minister, and leader in the abolitionist movement. He was a colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers (the first African-American regiment in the Civil War), an advocate of women's suffrage, and a close friend of the poet Emily Dickinson. A lifelong radical, in his old age Higginson joined with ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1823 and died there in 1911 at the age of 87. His long life spanned one of the most momentous historical periods in American history and literature, and Higginson was engaged with almost all of the most significant political struggles and associated with the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century.
8 de jun. de 2018 · Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow (1823–1911) US social reformer. A Unitarian minister, he worked for abolition of slavery and for women's rights. He was colonel of the first black regiment during the Civil War, an experience recorded in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870). Higginson was a close friend of many writers, notably Emily ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (b. 1823–d. 1911) was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard College (1841) and Harvard Divinity School (1847). A prolific author and popular lecturer, Higginson was also a Unitarian minister, an abolitionist activist, a soldier, an editor, a women’s rights leader, and a literary critic.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson is known primarily as Emily Dickinson’s mentor and epistolary interlocutor. “Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?,” the poet famously demanded of him in a letter from 1862. Yet Higginson was a 19 th -century Renaissance man, a reformer and writer in his own right.
CLIPPINGS about John Brown (659-661). LETTERS concerning John Brown (649-678). HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth. CLIPPINGS on Anthony Burns and the Butman Riot in Worcester, 1854 (480). HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth. COLLEGE NOTICES, Programs etc. 1836-1841. HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth. COLLEGE TERM BILLS 1837-1842 (105-134).
23 de jun. de 2020 · Thomas Wentworth Higginson went on in “Letter to a Young Contributor” to offer advice to would-be writers seeking to publish. Use black ink and quality paper, and avoid sloppy dashes. That ...
