Ella Higginson photographs collection [graphic], circa 1870-1938.

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Ella Higginson photographs collection [graphic], circa 1870-1938.

Photographs of Ella Higginson (1862-1940), a poet and writer from Bellingham, Wash. The photographs were taken circa 1870-1938 and depict Higginson as a young girl, her pet dogs, and her home in Bellingham, Wash.

0.08 cubic feet (12 photographs in 3 folders).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6826610

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Higginson, Ella, 1862-1940

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Author and advocate for women's issues, Higginson was born in Kansas to Charles and Mary Rhodes in 1861. The family moved to Oregon in Higginson's youth, where she married Russell Higginson in 1885. In 1888, the couple moved to Bellingham, Washington, where Higginson's writing career flourished. She was nationally published in journals such as McClure's, Harper's Monthly, and Colliers. Her best known poem, "Four Leaf Clover," propelled her into a weekly column for the Seattle Times entitled: "Cl...