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Her Own Society.(Emily Dickinson)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of women's rights, whose essays on slavery and suffrage, but also on snow, flowers, and calisthenics, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. "Letter to a Young Contributor," the article that inspired Dickinson to approach him, was a column addressed to literary debutantes and--despite his deep engagement with the Civil War--a paean to the bookish life: "There may be years of ...
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- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Loeffelholz, Mary January 1, 2009 700+ words
...The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson By Brenda Wineapple...literary history, Emily Dickinson might seem an unlikely...timelessness and Higginson to the pole of...Dickinson's poetry: Emily Dickinson stops my narrative...
- Dickinson, Emily and Thomas Wentworth Higginson: White Heat: The Friendship of...
- Magazine article from: Biography Thurman, Judith Oates, Joyce Carol Seymour, Miranda September 22, 2008 700+ words
...Emily and Thomas Wentworth Higginson White Heat. The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Brenda Wineapple. New York...Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 'Emily Dickinson stops my narrative. For as...
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- Magazine article from: American Scholar Wineapple, Brenda June 22, 2008 700+ words
In 1862 Emily Dickinson asked the well-known abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Are you too deeply...in 1886, the poet sent Higginson almost 100 poems, many...Dickinson had not picked Higginson at random. Suspecting...
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth...
- Magazine article from: Harvard Review White, Sarah June 1, 2009 700+ words
...HEAT: THE FRIENDSHIP OF EMILY DICKINSON AND THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON by Brenda Wineapple Alfred...first guarded query to editor Higginson opens almost abjectly...here, thanks to a focus on Higginson's own career and writings...
- Emily Dickinson.
- Magazine article from: National Review McDonnell, Thomas P. July 17, 1987 700+ words
...all that implies, Emily Dickinson was one of the most...with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a panjandrum of the...difference whether Higginson was too busy or not...near her.' Colonel Higginson, it turned out, would...private and dynamic Emily Dickinson than with the one ...
- Poems of Emily Dickinson: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Dickinson, Emily January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Notes 01-01-1963 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Early...marriage. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The other name of significance to Emily Dickinson's personal and professional...that of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a rising young literary...
- Poems of Emily Dickinson: Essay Questions and Bibliography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Dickinson, Emily January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Review 1. Who was Thomas Wentworth Higginson? Higginson was an essayist, chiefly for the...letters. In 1862, responding to Higginson's interest in young writers expressed in an essay, Emily Dickinson wrote to him enclosing verses and...
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum ed.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Pollak, Vivian January 1, 1999 700+ words
...complex reasons, Emily Dickinson chose not to...censored? When Emily Dickinson died at the age...Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to "delay...the value of Higginson's name, and...opinion that Emily Dickinson "did not live...