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L. Higgin
A Victorian writer and needlework expert, she is best remembered for turning embroidery into something practical, teachable, and beautifully documented. Writing as both L. Higgin and Hope Myddleton, she moved between craft instruction and fiction with ease.
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
Letitia "Lily" Higgin (1837–1913) was a British novelist and writer on needlework. She published under the names L. Higgin and Hope Myddleton, and is now especially associated with Handbook of Embroidery (1880), a practical guide that helped explain stitches, materials, and design in a clear, useful way.
Her work connected literature, art, and domestic craft at a time when embroidery was being taken seriously as both a skill and an art form. Alongside instructional writing, she also wrote fiction, including books for younger readers.
Today, she is remembered less as a celebrity author than as a quietly influential Victorian voice whose books preserved techniques and tastes that still interest readers, textile historians, and makers.