Women and the Alphabet - A Series of Essays

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Women and the Alphabet, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Women and the Alphabet Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson Release Date: September 15, 2004 [eBook #13474] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET*** E-text prepared by Judith B. Glad and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET A Series of Essays BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON 1881 PREFATORY NOTE The first essay in this volume, "Ought Women to learn the Alphabet?" appeared originally in the "Atlantic Monthly" of February, 1859, and has since been reprinted in various forms, bearing its share, I trust, in the great development of more liberal views in respect to the training and duties of women which has made itself manifest within forty years. There was, for instance, a report that it was the perusal of this essay which led the late Miss Sophia Smith to the founding of the women's college bearing her name at Northampton, Massachusetts. The remaining papers in the volume formed originally a part of a book entitled "Common Sense About Women" which was made up largely of papers from the "Woman's Journal.