American

Mary Thacher Higginson

1844–1941


Mary Thacher Higginson (1844–1941) was an American poet and the second wife of the writer and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, whom she married in 1879. She published verse in magazines.

Her poems are short nature lyrics and sonnets, and four of them were chosen for Stedman’s An American Anthology (1900).

  1. Changelings
  2. In the Dark
  3. Ghost-Flowers
  4. Inheritance

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