Plain Living and High Thinking:
Unitarianism and the Town and Country Club
The Rev. Dr. Frank Carpenter, Minister,
Channing Memorial Church
The Newport Historical Society
Tuesday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.
Most simply described as Julia Ward Howe's salon, the Town and Country Club was formed in 1871 in Newport, RI, by Howe and her "minion," T. Wentworth Higginson. In the words of VanWyck Brooks, the club was formed to "remind their more frivolous friends of the duties of culture."
Literature in a Republic, a version of which was given by T.W. Higginson to the Town and Country Club on August 10, 1888 at the home of J. W. Bigelow on Washington Street in Newport.
Related links:
Newport Historical Society
William Ellery Channing
George Bancroft: The Historian As Romantic Man of Letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
Carlyle, Channing and Newport
Unitarian Universalist Historical Society
Julia Ward Howe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Frank Carpenter