About S. J. Higginson
Lived 1840 – 1916 (aged 76). S. J. Higginson was an American writer.
Sarah Jane Hatfield Krauser van Heerdt Higginson, Baroness van Heerdt ( – ) was an American author who published under the name S. J. Higginson.
She was born Sarah Jane Hatfield on in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Hatfield and Eleanor Nutt Hatfield. Her works include the lost race novel A Princess of Java: A Tale of the Far East (1887) and the children's travel book Java, the Pearl of the East (1890).
S. J. Higginson died on 21 March 1916 in New York City. On May 15, 1874, in Brooklyn, New York, she married Stephen Higginson III, a coffee importer and diplomat. They had one son, Stephen.
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S. J. Higginson was born on 15 January 1840 in Philadelphia, Chester County.
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S. J. Higginson died on 21 March 1916 in New York City.
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S. J. Higginson was a writer.
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S. J. Higginson was American.
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