Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 35 books

This 1884 volume in the American Men of Letters series presents the biography of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, better known as Margaret Fuller, a proto-feminist and leading transcendentalist.  Drawing on her letters and papers, Higginson takes pains to show her as a woman of action as well as intellect.

The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the "Three Literary Epochs" of the second chapter — the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly — were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which...

This book contains five chapters from Higginson’s book “Travellers and Outlaws”. The collection presented here is commonly referred to as ‘Black Rebellion: five slave revolts’. Chapters include: The Maroons of Jamaica; The Maroons of Surinam; Gabriel’s Defeat; Denmark Vesey; and, Nat Turner’s Insurrection.

This book contains five chapters from Higginson’s book “Travellers and Outlaws”. The collection presented here is commonly referred to as ‘Black Rebellion: five slave revolts’. Chapters include: The Maroons of Jamaica; The Maroons of Surinam; Gabriel’s Defeat; Denmark Vesey; and, Nat Turner’s Insurrection.

THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called “the Poetry of the Portfolio, ”— something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage...

From the distinguished “English Men of Letters” series comes this biography of Quaker author and activist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). A member of nineteenth century New England’s family-friendly Fireside Poets School, Whittier was frequently mobbed for his outspoken antislavery beliefs....

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS. THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA THE MAROONS OF SURINAM GABRIEL’S DEFEAT DENMARK VESEY NAT TURNER’S INSURRECTION APPENDIX

This 1898 collection of the militant abolitionist’s essays and sketches includes “A Cambridge Boyhood,” “A Child of the College,” “The Rearing of a Reformer,” “The Fugitive Slave Epoch,” “Kansas and John Brown,” “Civil War,” “Literary London Twenty Years Ago,” and “On the Outskirts of Public Life,” among others.

The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes, — life and love and death. That “irresistible...

Hawthorne in his 'Wonder Book' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history,...