HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH. Woman and her Wishes. An Essay. [Boston: Robert Wallcut, 1854.] 12mo (190 x 117 mm). 32 pp, with appendix. Stringbound without covers. A PRISTINE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION, a separate issue, with signature marks 1-3*. After a first edition of 1853, the second edition included an appendix of Higginson's "Remarks... before the Committee of the Constitutional Convention on the Qualification of Voters, June 5, 1853." Higginson was a Unitarian minister from Boston who was a staunch advocate of equal rights, and commanded a regiment of freed slaves during the Civil War. In 1862, Emily Dickinson sent him 4 poems with a note, beginning a lifelong friendship. He not only spoke at her funeral but co-edited the first two published volumes of her poetry.
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH. Woman and her Wishes. An Essay. [Boston: Robert Wallcut, 1854.] 12mo (190 x 117 mm). 32 pp, with appendix. Stringbound without covers. A PRISTINE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION, a separate issue, with signature marks 1-3*. After a first edition of 1853, the second edition included an appendix of Higginson's "Remarks... before the Committee of the Constitutional Convention on the Qualification of Voters, June 5, 1853." Higginson was a Unitarian minister from Boston who was a staunch advocate of equal rights, and commanded a regiment of freed slaves during the Civil War. In 1862, Emily Dickinson sent him 4 poems with a note, beginning a lifelong friendship. He not only spoke at her funeral but co-edited the first two published volumes of her poetry.
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