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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... four great horses, for Wheeling, Virginia, and spent a week or more on the way, crossing the Alleghenies, before ever a railroad was thought of, and enjoyed every minute of the way. At least we children did, with brother George on the ...
... four great horses, for Wheeling, Virginia, and spent a week or more on the way, crossing the Alleghenies, before ever a railroad was thought of, and enjoyed every minute of the way. At least we children did, with brother George on the ...
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... four, may have been off in their bedchamber resting, all of them after a day's travel stopped at the village of Dowington, some thirty miles beyond Philadelphia. They were bound for a new life together in the Queen City of the West ...
... four, may have been off in their bedchamber resting, all of them after a day's travel stopped at the village of Dowington, some thirty miles beyond Philadelphia. They were bound for a new life together in the Queen City of the West ...
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... four millions, and in twenty years to be at the heart of twelve millions, is the most important point in our nation for a great central theological institution of the first character.” That was how the emissary Franklin Vail, trustee of ...
... four millions, and in twenty years to be at the heart of twelve millions, is the most important point in our nation for a great central theological institution of the first character.” That was how the emissary Franklin Vail, trustee of ...
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... four days to Wheeling was fortyfour miles. The journey which takes the mail-stage forty-eight hours, took us eight days.” Moreover, having reached the Ohio River at last, at Wheeling (still in Virginia in those antebellum years), the ...
... four days to Wheeling was fortyfour miles. The journey which takes the mail-stage forty-eight hours, took us eight days.” Moreover, having reached the Ohio River at last, at Wheeling (still in Virginia in those antebellum years), the ...
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... four years that followed in the town, unsuccessful at fulfilling any mercantile ambitions but finding another way to prosper when, upon returning to England, she published an account of her travels, Domestic Manners of the Americans, to ...
... four years that followed in the town, unsuccessful at fulfilling any mercantile ambitions but finding another way to prosper when, upon returning to England, she published an account of her travels, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 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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