Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911

Overview

Works:	1,070 works in 3,081 publications in 2 languages and 58,915 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Biography History Personal narratives Records and correspondence Biographies Personal correspondence Diaries Autobiographies Criticism, interpretation, etc
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Composer, Other, Adapter, Attributed name, Author of introduction, Former owner, Signer
Classifications:	PS1541, 811.4

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Genteel rhetoric : writing high culture in nineteenth-century Boston by Dorothy C Broaddus( )
White heat : the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple( Book )
Army life in a black regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Future perfect : American science fiction of the nineteenth century by H. Bruce Franklin( Book )
Strange enthusiasm; a life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Tilden G Edelstein( Book )

Letters and journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Thomas Wentworth Higginson by James W Tuttleton( Book )
The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Cheerful yesterdays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Dear preceptor; the life and times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Anna Mary Wells( Book )
Colonel of the black regiment; the life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Howard N Meyer( Book )
Thomas Wentworth Higginson : the story of his life by Mary Potter Thacher Higginson( Book )
The magnificent activist : the writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Part of a man's life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Army life in a Black regiment, and other writings by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )
Reply to "T.W.H." in Boston advertiser by Samuel C Smith( )
Conjuring freedom : music and masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" by Johari Jabir( Book )
The Gospel of to-day : a discourse delivered at the ordination of T.W. Higginson as minister of the first religious society in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 15, 1847. by W. H Channing( )
Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Edwin D Mead( Book )
Digressions and indiscretions by Richard Leighton Greene( Book )

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Most widely held works by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Army life in a black regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

92 editions published between 1869 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the story of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States Union Army during the Civil War

Malbone : an Oldport romance. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

59 editions published between 1869 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Part of a man's life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

18 editions published between 1905 and 2013 in English and held by 1,807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Negro spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

8 editions published between 1867 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,791 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Helen Jackson by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

7 editions published in 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mrs. Helen Jackson ("H.H.") by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

7 editions published in 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,784 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson( Book )

171 editions published between 1890 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The collected poems of Emily Dickinson

Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

81 editions published between 1884 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Collected poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson( Book )

17 editions published between 1890 and 1991 in English and held by 1,513 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Here are 450 poems from the private collection of America's most cherished poet, including many difficult to find elsewhere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

23 editions published between 1902 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume is described as being different from other biographies of Longfellow in its organization and use of additional content. Its three focuses include little-published correspondence between Longfellow and his first wife, information on his early academic years and a compilation of excerpts from some of his earliest work

Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus( Book )

7 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Handbook of Epictetus also known as Enchiridion written by legendary Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is a manual of Stoic ethical advice. This great classic is, for many, required reading for various courses and curriculums. The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life

Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson : together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst by Emily Dickinson( Book )

14 editions published between 1959 and 1982 in English and held by 865 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents more than three hundred poems and approximately one hundred letters by nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson

Contemporaries by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

40 editions published between 1899 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Harvard memorial biographies by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

31 editions published between 1866 and 2015 in English and held by 745 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cheerful yesterdays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

27 editions published between 1897 and 2016 in English and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Higginson was a radical member of the Boston Vigilance Committee that plucked captured slave runaways from the hands of sheriffs or Federal Marshalls bent on returning them to Southern masters; he rode with abolitionist riflemen in "Bleeding Kansas;" in 1859 he was one of the "Secret Six" who sponsored John Brown's raid. During the Civil War he was the logical choice to lead the First South Carolina Colored Volunteers; he earned the respect of his black soldiers and under his leadership they soon earned the respect of every military foe or friend they encountered

John Greenleaf Whittier by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

26 editions published between 1902 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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. Written by a fellow abolitionist, this 1902 life story is a wealth of anecdote and reminiscence from Whittier's boyhood to his death

Tales of the enchanted islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

33 editions published between 1898 and 2017 in English and held by 625 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of twenty myths and legends that revolve around mysterious or vanishing islands

Black rebellion by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( Book )

20 editions published between 1966 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 623 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disfranchised peoples

Favorite poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson( Book )

6 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 622 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Common sense about women by Thomas Wentworth Higginson( )

56 editions published between 1881 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 581 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Higginson presents his views on women's education, suffrage, and employment in his argument for equality between the sexes

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