Loves of Harriet Beecher StoweThe author of Hawthorne in Concord “brings [Stowe] to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction” (Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America). Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin forced an ambivalent North to confront the atrocities of slavery, yet it was just one of many accomplishments of the Beechers, the most eminent American family of the nineteenth century. Historian Philip McFarland follows the Beecher clan to the boomtown of Cincinnati, where Harriet’s glimpses of slavery across the Kentucky border moved her to pen Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We meet Harriet’s loves: her father Lyman, her husband Calvin, and her brother Henry, the most famous preacher of his time. As McFarland leads us through Harriet’s ever-changing world, he traces the arc of her literary career from her hard-scrabble beginnings to her ascendancy as the most renowned author of her day. Through the portrait of a defining American family, Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe opens into an unforgettable rendering of mid-nineteenth century America in the midst of unprecedented social and demographic explosions. To this day, Uncle Tom’s Cabin reverberates as a crucial document in Western culture. “Often dismissed even by her admirers as a pious faculty wife who just happened to write the book of the century, Harriet Beecher Stowe emerges in Philip McFarland’s biography in all her complexity and genius.” —Charles Calhoun, author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life and The Gilded Age |
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... henry 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. The Beechers Religion Brooklyn Changing America My Wife and I Scandal Inside the Home Trial 101 112 131 140 149 157 197 206 215 225 235 245 254 263 29. Late Years 30. Endings notes works cited ...
... henry 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. The Beechers Religion Brooklyn Changing America My Wife and I Scandal Inside the Home Trial 101 112 131 140 149 157 197 206 215 225 235 245 254 263 29. Late Years 30. Endings notes works cited ...
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... Henry, younger and closest to her in age. While in the East, she was to receive grim news from her family in Cincinnati. Amid the hogs and filth, cholera had come back to the Queen City that summer. The causes of its reappearance were ...
... Henry, younger and closest to her in age. While in the East, she was to receive grim news from her family in Cincinnati. Amid the hogs and filth, cholera had come back to the Queen City that summer. The causes of its reappearance were ...
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... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne.) After graduating, Stowe lingered a year in Brunswick as librarian at Bowdoin, then resumed his studies, at Andover Theological Seminary, before taking a position in Hanover, New ...
... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne.) After graduating, Stowe lingered a year in Brunswick as librarian at Bowdoin, then resumed his studies, at Andover Theological Seminary, before taking a position in Hanover, New ...
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... Henry Ellis Stowe. There were now three children under eighteen months old. “My Dear, Dear Georgiana,” the new mother found time at last, six months later, to write to her Hartford friend: “Only think how long it is since I have written ...
... Henry Ellis Stowe. There were now three children under eighteen months old. “My Dear, Dear Georgiana,” the new mother found time at last, six months later, to write to her Hartford friend: “Only think how long it is since I have written ...
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... Henry, five months old, “makes a doleful lip” and starts crying. While his mother attends to that, one of the twins rummages through the sewing box, and the other chews coals and plays in ashes at the hearth. Deterred, the twins fall to ...
... Henry, five months old, “makes a doleful lip” and starts crying. While his mother attends to that, one of the twins rummages through the sewing box, and the other chews coals and plays in ashes at the hearth. Deterred, the twins fall to ...
Contents
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Uncle Toms Cabin | 74 |
Civil War | 157 |
Postbellum | 167 |
A Vindication | 177 |
Aftermath | 187 |
henry | 195 |
The Beechers | 197 |
Religion | 206 |
Brooklyn | 215 |
Reception | 83 |
Dark Places | 91 |
lyman | 99 |
To England | 101 |
Culture | 112 |
Looking Back | 121 |
Return to Europe | 131 |
Heartbreak | 140 |
The Ministers Wooing | 149 |
Changing America | 225 |
My Wife and I | 235 |
Scandal | 245 |
Inside the Home | 254 |
Trial | 263 |
Late Years | 274 |
notes | 293 |
works cited | 315 |
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