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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... woman make friends, and thus her true friends were few. Georgiana May back in Hartford was one such. To Georgiana, Harriet wrote candidly, in the spring of 1833, of ill health and low spirits since coming to Cincinnati. Her new ...
... woman make friends, and thus her true friends were few. Georgiana May back in Hartford was one such. To Georgiana, Harriet wrote candidly, in the spring of 1833, of ill health and low spirits since coming to Cincinnati. Her new ...
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Philip McFarland. 2. CINCINNATI. H. arriet Beecher was a woman of strong and varied emotions; yet the contrast persists between her later radiant recollections—of Cincinnati, say—and the drabber feelings that she recorded at the time. She ...
Philip McFarland. 2. CINCINNATI. H. arriet Beecher was a woman of strong and varied emotions; yet the contrast persists between her later radiant recollections—of Cincinnati, say—and the drabber feelings that she recorded at the time. She ...
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... women”)—the opinionated Mrs. Trollope had recorded a stroll she had taken in the countryside around Cincinnati with the expectation of pressing her feet to “the flowery sod,” yet even in so bucolic a setting having been forced to step ...
... women”)—the opinionated Mrs. Trollope had recorded a stroll she had taken in the countryside around Cincinnati with the expectation of pressing her feet to “the flowery sod,” yet even in so bucolic a setting having been forced to step ...
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... woman was heard to exclaim, “O, how delightful! Her whole countenance brightened & glowed She waved her hands with joy, saying (I cannot tell how many times) O, how delightful.” Then, utterly exhausted, Eliza sank into a lethargic sleep ...
... woman was heard to exclaim, “O, how delightful! Her whole countenance brightened & glowed She waved her hands with joy, saying (I cannot tell how many times) O, how delightful.” Then, utterly exhausted, Eliza sank into a lethargic sleep ...
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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