Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823–1911)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Works

• The writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1900 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Prose

• Things new and old, 1852 (short work) (external scan)
• Woman and Her Wishes, 1853 (short work) (external scan)
• Massachusetts in mourning. 1854 (short work) (external scan)
• Woman's Rights Tracts, 1854 contributor (external scan)
• Does slavery Christianize the negro?, 1855 (external scan)
• A ride through Kansas, 1856 (short work) (external scan)
• The new revolution, 1857 (short work) (external scan)
• Outdoor Papers (1863) (external scan)
• The works of Epictetus. 1865 (external scan)
• Harvard memorial biographies, ed. 1866 vol 1, vol 2
• Malbone: an Oldport Romance (1869) (external scan)
• Memoir of Thaddeus William Harris, 1869 (short work) (external scan)
• Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) (external scan)
• Atlantic Essays, 1871 (external scan)
• The Sympathy of Religions, 1871 (short work) (external scan)
• Oldport days, 1873 (external scan)
• Young Folks' History of the United States, (1875) (external scan)
  • Questions on Higginson's Young folks' history of the United States. 1875 (external scan)
• English Statesmen, 1875 (external scan)
• A Book of American Explorers (1877) (external scan)
• Short studies of American authors, 1880 external link
• The Nonsense of It: Short Answers to Common Objections Against Woman Suffrage (ca. 1881-1887)
• Common sense about women, 1881 (external scan)
• Wendell Phillips, 1884 (short work) (external scan)
• Margaret Fuller Ossoli (in American Men of Letters series, 1884)
• A Larger History of the United States of America to the Close of President Jackson's Administration (1885) (external scan)
• The Monarch of Dreams (1886) (external scan)
• Hints on writing and speech-making, 1887 (short work) (external scan)
• Women and men, 1888 (external scan)
• Travellers and Outlaws (1889) (external scan)
• The Afternoon Landscape (1889), poems and translations (external scan)
• American sonnets. ed; 1890 (external scan)
• Remarks at “Meeting in Tremont Temple” from A Memorial of John Boyle O'Reilly from the City of Boston (1891)
• Life of Francis Higginson (in Makers of America, 1891) (external scan)
• Concerning All of Us (1892) (external scan)
• English history for American readers, 1893 (external scan)
• Such as They are: Poems. with Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, 1893 (short work) (external scan)
• Massachusetts in the army and navy during the war of 1861-65. Published 1895 vol 1, vol 2
• Book and heart (1897) (external scan)
• The Procession of the Flowers and Kindred Papers (1897)
• Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (1898) (external scan)
• Cheerful Yesterdays (1898) (external scan)
• Historic towns of New England (contributor; 1898) (external scan)
• Old Cambridge (1899) (external scan)
• Contemporaries (1899) (external scan)
• Three outdoor papers (1900) (external scan)
• American orators and oratory (1901) (external scan)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (in American Men of Letters series, 1902) (external scan)
• John Greenleaf Whittier (in English Men of Letters series, 1902) (external scan)
• A Readers History of American Literature (1903), the Lowell Institute lectures for 1903, edited by Henry W Boynton (external scan)
• Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch, 1903 tr. (external scan)
• Part of a Man's Life (1905) (external scan)
• History of the United States from 986 to 1905. Published 1905 (external scan)
• The Hawthorne centenary celebration (ed.; 1905) (external scan)
• Life and Times of Stephen Higginson (1907) (external scan)
• Things worth while, 1908 (external scan)
• Carlyle's laugh, and other surprises (1909) (external scan)
• “White Slaves in Africa. A Sailor's Story,” The North American Review, Volume 190, July 1, 1909 (external scan)
• Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, 1910 (external scan)
• Days and ways in old Boston, 1914 contributor (external scan)
• Letters and journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906 (1921) (external scan)

Articles

• "Saints, and Their Bodies" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (12) (1858)
• "Mademoiselle's Campaigns" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (2) (1858)
• "Water-Lilies" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (4) (1858)
• "Physical Courage" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (6) (1858)
• "Letter to a Young Contributor" in The Atlantic Monthly, 9 (54) (April, 1862)
• "Fair Play the Best Policy" in The Atlantic Monthly, 15 (91) (May, 1865)
• "An Artist's Dream," in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 20
• "Up to Edisto," in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 20
• "Emily Dickinson's Letters" in The Atlantic Monthly, 68 (408) (October, 1891)
• "Brown, John (abolitionist)," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Phillips, Wendell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Individual poems

• "Sea-Gulls at Fresh Pond"

Letters

• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 26, 1881)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (April 5, 1883)

As editor

• Poems, by Emily Dickinson, 1890
• Poems: Second Series, by Emily Dickinson, 1891

Works about Higginson

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Edwin Doak Mead. Published 1900 (external scan)
• A typical American: Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Th. Bentzon, 1840-1907. Published 1902 (external scan)
• A bibliography of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.), 1906 (start transcription)
• Laureled leaders for little folk by Mary Elizabeth Phillips, 1857-1945. Published 1908 (external scan)
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson; the story of his life by Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, 1914 (external scan)
• "Higginson, Thomas Wentworth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• "Higginson, Thomas Wentworth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Higginson, Thomas Wentworth," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Higginson, Stephen," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)