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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
The next letter refers to a rising young author in whom Mr. Higginson took great interest: Do you remember a Newburyport girl named Harriet Prescott [Mrs. Spofford] who writes me immense letters and whom I think a wonderful genius? She has just sent to the Atlantic a story, under an assumed name, which is so brilliant and shows such an extraordinary intimacy with European life that the editors seriously suspected it of being a translation from some first-class Frenchman, as Balzac or Dumas, and I had to be called in to satisfy them that a demure little Yankee girl could have written it: which, as you may imagine, has delighted me much. It is called In a Cellar and will appear in December. A few months later he wrote: We had a nice time in Newburyport. I enjoyed seeing the little authoress more than anything; it seemed just like Fanny Burney of whom we had been reading. She was very modest and humble about it, and only felt as if it were a sort of cheat to take $105
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Henry James, Jr. (search)
ith plenty of other artists less known. The household is perfectly amazed and overwhelmed at the sight of two foreigners, although there probably were more cultivated Europeans in Boston thirty years ago than now, having been drawn thither by the personal celebrity or popularity of Agassiz, Ticknor, Longfellow, Sumner, and Dr. Howe. The whole picture-though it is fair to remember that the author calls it a sketch only — seems more like a delineation of American society by Fortunio or Alexandre Dumas fils, than like a portraiture by one to the manor born. The truth is, that Mr. James's cosmopolitanism is, after all, limited: to be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country. There are no short stories in our recent literature, I think, which are so good as Mr. James's best,--Madame de Mauves, for instance, and The Madonna of the future. Even these sometimes lack condensation; but they have a thoroughly original grasp, and fine delineations of character.
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
e were the Prince and Princess Metternich, Duke and Duchess de Morny, Duke and Duchess de Persigny, Count and Countess Walewski, Baron Hausmann and wife, all the dames de honeur, chamberlains, lawyers and members of the household of the Tuileries and Palais Royal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Madame Drouyn de l'huys, all the foreign ambassadors, including our Charge; Mr. Bigelow and Mrs. Bigelow; Marshal Magnan and daughters, Duchess Coloma, Monsieur and Madame Emile de Girandin, Alexandre Dumas (father and son), Victorian Sardon, the successful dramatic author; Emile Angier, the dramatist; Mermet, composer of the new opera, Roland a Roncesvaux; Gustave Dare, Adolphe Gueroult, editor of the Opinione Nationale, and many other men, distinguished in the world of literature, and art. "In the musical world there was also a good deal of excitement last week.--The veteran maestro Rossini, besides his usual receptions of Saturday, gives each year ten grand musical soirees. The fi