(1823-1911) US minister, soldier, abolitionist, man of letters and author, perhaps as well known now for serving as the half-comprehending mentor of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) as he is for leading a regiment of black soldiers (the US Army did not allow black soldiers to be commanded by black officers) in the American Civil War. His fiction is relatively unimportant, but includes The Monarch of Dreams (1887 chap), a fantasy exploration of lucid dreaming set in the remoter reaches of New England, and Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (coll 1898), which includes a Lost Race tale invoking Atlantis. [JC]

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

born Cambridge, Massachusetts: 22 December 1823

died Cambridge, Massachusetts: 9 May 1911

works

• The Monarch of Dreams (Boston, Massachusetts: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1887) [chap: hb/]
• Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (London: Macmillan and Co, 1898) [coll: hb/]

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