Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Henry Peter Higginson
Standard Name: Higginson, Henry Peter
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) eloped with the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson
(husband of her employer, Charlotte Whyte-Melville
). He bought an estate for them at Slottnaes Park in Langesund, Norway. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958. 16-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | One year after the death of her lover Henry Peter Higginson
, Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) fell in love with the avant-garde realist Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 89-107. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958. 19 |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | Charlotte Whyte-Melville
had been married to military and sporting novelist Major George Whyte-Melville
, who died in 1878. She was a widow when she met Higginson
(then her domestic chaplain, while she was his patroness)... |
Literary Setting | George Egerton | |
Occupation | George Egerton | In London she became the travelling-companion of Charlotte Whyte-Melville
, a widow now living as the wife of the Rev. Henry Peter Higginson
, who was a friend of John Joseph Dunne
, father of the future GE
. |
Textual Features | George Egerton | In Under Northern Sky, which is structured in three parts, the heroine, Marie Larsen, rescues her neighbour from the neighbour's alcoholic, abusive, and dying husband.GE
drew the husband's behaviour from her memories of... |
Violence | George Egerton | Higginson
would go into drunken rages against GE
, which she later fictionalized in her first volume of short stories. Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 30 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1997, pp. 89-107. 99 |
Wealth and Poverty | George Egerton | At his death, Higginson
left the future GE
an income of ¥220 a year. She continued to receive this income, as well as the money made from selling the Norwegian property, after she moved back... |
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