ella higginson happened to the board and the right time. at the end of the nineteenth century in the united states there is an explosion in periodical publications. the numbers are just staggering. as you get more and more periodicals, more and more magazines, more and more literary journal you have a need for more and more material. at the same time suddenly now that the civil war is over with some leaf there is a drive to get felices -- once she sent out her writing this is exactly the writing they were looking for. in 1914 she won a national prize for her short story, $2,500 which is decent money that and now. the roosevelts -- ella higginson translated the pacific northwest for the rest of the world. her impact was unique at the time. by the time she died in 1940 all her books were out of print, she was virtually forgotten outside of bellingham and she has remained virtually unknown, virtually uncovered since then. a lot of women writers tended to be forgotten or neglected once you made the turn into the 20th century. women writers some

this is ella higginson's column four leaf clover. it was published in 1890 and it was an immediate hit. it was popular all over the place. it remained high growth throughout her lifetime. it is the only work of hers today that you can readily access. ella higginson was an american author in the late-night teens, early '20s century in the united states. she was celebrated nationally and internationally for her fiction and her poetry, nonfiction, a couple screenplays. she was the reason everyone knew what the pacific northwest was like at a time. it was a very remote area, and ella higginson was the one who translated the reason -- the region for the world. she was born in kansas public in 1862, and as a child she moved to oregon with her family which is where she grew up. in early '20s she got married and she and her husband moved north to bellingham, washington, where she spent the next 52 years of her life until her death, in which he very quickly established a national literary reputation. she had been born in kansas, she considere