Henry Peter Higginson

Chavelita Dunne (later GE ) eloped with the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson (husband of her employer, Charlotte Whyte-Melville ). He bought an estate for them at Slottnaes Park in Langesund, Norway.

One year after the death of her lover Henry Peter Higginson , Chavelita Dunne (later GE ) fell in love with the avant-garde realist author Knut Hamsun (whose real name was Knut Pedersen ).

Charlotte Whyte-Melville had been married to military and sporting novelist Major George Whyte-Melville , who died in 1878. She was a widow when she met Higginson (then her domestic chaplain, while she was his patroness)...

The heroine of this novel has GE 's birthname, Mary. Through Mary's experiences as a clerk in New York, GE examines the harsh conditions for working women there in the nineteenth century.GE emphasizes...

In London she became the travelling-companion of Charlotte Whyte-Melville , a widow now living as the wife of the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson , who was a friend of John Joseph Dunne , father of the future GE .

In Under Northern Sky, which is structured in three parts, the heroine, Marie Larsen, rescues her neighbour from the neighbour's alcoholic, abusive, and dying husband.GE drew the husband's behaviour from her memories of...

Higginson would go into drunken rages against GE , which she later fictionalized in her first volume of short stories.

At his death, Higginson left the future GE an income of ¥220 a year. She continued to receive this income, as well as the money made from selling the Norwegian property, after she moved back...