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The article explores the writing of U.S. minister and historian Thomas Wentworth Higginson on the women's rights movement in the 19th century. Higginson's essays, speeches and biographies discussed topics such as the role of men in the movement, notable women such as transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, and women's history. Other topics include his relationships with authors such as Helen Jackson Hunt and Emily Dickinson, the education of women in New England, and his donation of books to the Boston Public Library in Boston, Massachusetts.