Thomas Wentworth Higginson

JWH 's membership of the Boston Radical Club was an important source of literary contacts for her. Formed in the fall of 1867, the club met monthly in the home of the Reverend John T. Sargent

JWH first encountered Higginson (the friend and correspondent of Emily Dickinson ) at a Boston rally in support of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins . Howe was living at 241 Beacon Street in Boston...

Other friendships for ED included those with literary men such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson , Samuel Bowles (editor of the Springfield Republican), and Josiah Holland . Elizabeth Holland , wife of Josiah and his...

Their correspondence began when ED responded to an article Higginson wrote in the Atlantic Monthly entitled Letter to a Young Contributor, which was mostly devoted to describing the proper way to submit an unsolicited...

It was reviewed the following year in the Athenæum. Disapproved on the whole by clergy of every denomination, this book did not sell up to LMC 's usual standards.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (who had...

The story received serious attention from the literary community: poet John Greenleaf Whittier and author and political radical Thomas Wentworth Higginson both wrote letters of praise.

Howe was introduced to Lucy Stone at a women's suffrage meeting at Boston's Horticultural Hall in November 1868. At the time Howe bore little love for the suffrage movement, and in Reminiscences she describes...

After ED 's death, her sister Lavinia made the initial discovery of poems, stored away in a locked box. Some were neatly copied out while others were dashed off on the back of bills...

Among the earliest of Sappho 's translators into English was Anne Finch ; among recent translators is Mary Barnard , 1958. Stevie Smith declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...

Her first Westminster piece, which appeared in January 1883 entitled Common Sense about Women, reviews the book of the same name by Thomas Wentworth Higginson , which advances the cause of the women's movement...

ED began a twenty-year correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson , editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

Two months before the appearance of the first edition of ED 's poetry, Thomas Higginson published an essay which discussed her work. He made excuses for the poems on the grounds that they were written...