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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 32 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 8 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 56 (search)
admitted that the contributions of American women to the poetry and fiction of the day are abundant and creditable. But it must be remembered that journalism itself is hardly more ephemeral than all poetry or fiction short of the highest; and our rapid American life has already created and forgotten several generations of such short-lived celebrities. In Griswold's laborious Female poets of America, published some forty years ago, there is hardly a name that is now remembered; and Poe and Willis in those days used to place a crown of the most perishable materials on the head of every woman who flattered them or whom they wished to flatter. Apart from their tributes, a place on Parnassus was supposed to be securely held by the Davidson sisters, for instance, two half-developed girls, who earned by their pathetic early deaths what really passed for fame. It is doubtful whether a place more permanent can be assigned to the good-natured Cary sisters. A greater loss to memory is the f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
quoted, 217. Washington, George, 296. Wasted, the fear of its being, 232. Watson, E. H., 183. Watson, George, 183. weak, victory of the, 296. Wellesley College, 100. Wellington, the Duke of, quoted, 196. White, R. G., 24. Whittier, J. G., quoted, 54, 117. Also 98,106, 153, 308. who shall fix the value? 202. Whole duty of man, the, 4. why women authors write under the names of men, 259. Wife, position of, in Rome, 45. Will, breaking of, in children, 1°1. Willis, N. P., 289. Winlock, Anna, 287. Wolcott, Mrs., Oliver, 98. Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin. woman of influence, the, 17. woman's enterprise, A, 207. Women, advantages of, 29; as household decorators, 161; as organizers, 20, 149; as public speakers, 239; authors, 18; courage of, 142; disadvantages of, 12, 92; earnings of, 119; education of, 88; employments of, 60, 161,269; plurality of, 38; teachers, 20, 100, 131, 244; their need of strength, 59; working among men, 10; writing unde