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Introduction Get access

Leslie Butler
in Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
Published: 30 April 2007
...The Massachusetts Historical Society is a group of like-minded friends who shared literary political commitments and historical experiences during the middle of the century. This book focuses on four central figures of this group: Charles Eliot Norton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William...
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Victorian Duty, American Scholars, and National Crisis Get access

Leslie Butler
in Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
Published: 30 April 2007
...This chapter presents biographical sketches of Charles Eliot Norton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, George William Curtis, and James Russell Lowell, and explores how they struggled to find meaningful and fulfilling work during a period of intensifying crisis engulfing the nation in the late 1850s...