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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... means, or the facilitation therof, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Any members of educational ...
... means, or the facilitation therof, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Any members of educational ...
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... means! I feel sadly about them. They may change; they must die; they are separated from me, and I ask myself why should I wish to love with all the pains and penalties of such conditions?” Even to this dear friend Harriet hesitated ...
... means! I feel sadly about them. They may change; they must die; they are separated from me, and I ask myself why should I wish to love with all the pains and penalties of such conditions?” Even to this dear friend Harriet hesitated ...
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... means to dissipate the illness and bad feelings of divers kinds that have for some time been growing upon me.” Since then, Miss Beecher had found a way to allay bad feelings by writing, even earning money doing so. With her older ...
... means to dissipate the illness and bad feelings of divers kinds that have for some time been growing upon me.” Since then, Miss Beecher had found a way to allay bad feelings by writing, even earning money doing so. With her older ...
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... means of scourging the human race for their sins, and it seems to be an appropriate one for the sins of uncleanliness and intemperance,” inasmuch as God's punishment hit hardest among the squalidly, drunkenly poor. Yet in its new ...
... means of scourging the human race for their sins, and it seems to be an appropriate one for the sins of uncleanliness and intemperance,” inasmuch as God's punishment hit hardest among the squalidly, drunkenly poor. Yet in its new ...
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... means that through all that while, whatever literary fancies may have entered Harriet's mind had vanished unrecorded. 5 AGONIES G eorge Beecher, the former Yale student who V3612p01.pmd 2/16/07, 3:22 PM 42. loves. of. harriet. beecher.
... means that through all that while, whatever literary fancies may have entered Harriet's mind had vanished unrecorded. 5 AGONIES G eorge Beecher, the former Yale student who V3612p01.pmd 2/16/07, 3:22 PM 42. loves. of. harriet. beecher.
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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