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L. Higgin
A Victorian writer with an unusually wide range, she moved between fiction, travel writing, and practical needlework guides. Her books also reflect a deep knowledge of Spain, a subject that helped set her apart from many of her contemporaries.
2 Audiobooks
Spanish Life in Town and Country
by L. Higgin, Eugène E. (Eugène Edward) Street
Handbook of Embroidery
by L. Higgin
About the author
Writing as L. Higgin and sometimes under the pen name Hope Myddleton, Letitia "Lily" Higgin was a British author born in 1837 and active across several genres. She is remembered for novels, for books about Spanish life, and for her work on embroidery, showing a career shaped by both literary ambition and practical expertise.
Higgin spent time in Spain, and that experience informed her reputation as a knowledgeable English-language writer on Spanish life and culture. She also became closely associated with the School of Art Needlework, later the Royal School of Needlework, and her Handbook of Embroidery became one of her best-known works.
She died in 1913, but her writing still offers an interesting glimpse into Victorian tastes and interests: fiction, domestic arts, travel, and the wider world beyond Britain. For listeners drawn to overlooked nineteenth-century writers, she has an especially distinctive voice.