Fiction · 1869
Malbone
An Oldport Romance
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Contents
- Epigraph
- Prelude
- I — An Arrival
- II — Place Aux Dames!
- III — A Drive on the Avenue
- IV — Aunt Jane Defines Her Position
- V — A Multivalve Heart
- VI — “Some Lover’s Clear Day.”
- VII — An International Exposition
- VIII — Talking It Over
- IX — Dangerous Ways
- X — Remonstrances
- XI — Descensus Averni
- XII — A New Engagement
- XIII — Dreaming Dreams
- XIV — The Nemesis of Passion
- XV — Across the Bay
- XVI — On the Stairs
- XVII — Discovery
- XVIII — Hope’s Vigil
- XIX — De Profundis
- XX — Aunt Jane to the Rescue
- XXI — A Storm
- XXII — Out of the Depths
- XXIII — Requiescat
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1823–1911 · Victorian
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) was a Unitarian minister, writer, and reformer from Cambridge, Massachusetts, active in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements for most of his life. During the Civil War he commanded the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first Union regiment of formerly enslaved soldiers, an experience he recounted in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870); he also wrote the novel Malbone: An Oldport Romance (1869). He corresponded for years with the poet Emily Dickinson, whom he never met until shortly before her death, and after it he co-edited the first published collections of her poems. He died in Cambridge at eighty-seven.
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