This October 1896 article from The Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Telegraph proclaims that Ella Higginson’s poems “show that the art of poetry is not yet dead in America” and that she will make “an impression that will last in the world of literature.”

This 1894 article from the Oregon Statesman Journal boasts of Higginson’s Oregon roots now that she is “on the road to literary fame.”

In 1897, The Tennessean printed a glowing review of Higginson’s short story collection, The Land of the Snow Pearls, noting that Higginson’s work “not only charms the mind but also the heart.”

This 1901 advertisement from the Evening Report (Pennsylvania) indicates that Higginson’s literary reputation is one that will draw in readers.

In January 1903, the Chicago Tribune reviewed Higginson’s novel Mariella, of Out West, praising the novel’s accessibility despite its Pacific Northwest roots: “The characters are each one destined to long remembrance; their sorrows, joys, mistakes, and varied experiences all go to prove the truth that life on the Puget sound is made up of the same component parts as elsewhere, and that, at heart, all human beings are strangely alike.”

This poem by Charles Edward Cone (born in Kansas in 1862, later moved to La Push, Washington), which appeared in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1924, praises Higginson’s writing in its final stanza.

This 1905 article in The Buffalo [New York] Inquirer notes the international demand for Ella Higginson’s work.

In 1909, the Buffalo [New York] Courier reported that Ella Higginson is “the proudest possession, in a literary way” of both Bellingham, Washington where she lived and of Washington State as a whole.