Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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WOMEN
AND THE ALPHABET

A Series of Essays

BY

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

1881

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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.