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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet. Beecher. Stowe: A. Brief. Chronology. 1811 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, seventh of nine children, is born on June 14 to the Reverend Lyman Beecher (a prominent Presbyterian minister) and Roxana Beecher of Litchfield, Connecticut  ...
Combatants or compatriots?: Catharine Beecher, Frances ...

Combatants or compatriots?: Catharine Beecher, Frances ...

Erika Janik

In Catharine Esther Beecher (Pioneer Educator), Mae Elizabeth Harveson hails Beecher as a "pioneer in the movement for educational equality. Interestingly, Harveson argues that Beecher was both "conservative" and "radical" for her time.
The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's ...

The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's ...

Jeanne Boydston

9. Harriet Beecher Stowe to Henry Ward Beecher, June n, 1870, SML. Stowe's dilletantish suffrage leader, Mrs. Cerulean, was recognized by many suffragists to be a highly satirical portrait of Isabella. See, for example, Ellen Garrison's letter to  ...
Woman's profession in the life and thought of Catharine ...

Woman's profession in the life and thought of Catharine ...

Susan Hill Lindley

Catharine Beecher has been the subject of two full-length studies, Mae Elizabeth Harveson, Catharine Esther Beecher: Pioneer Educator (1932) and Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973). Harveson 's ...
Educational Outlook

Educational Outlook

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The Pursuit of the Ghost of Catharine Beecher MAE ELIZABETH HARVESON Frankford High School, Philadelphia Catharine Beecher had been dead fifty years when I first became interested in her. Now, a half century is but a moment to the ...
The American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science

The American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science

Catharine Esther Beecher

Beecher became a teacher in 1821 at a school in New Haven, Connecticut. Catharine was engaged to marry Professor Alexander M. Fisher of Yale University, but he died at sea before the wedding took place. She never married.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

Nancy Koester

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five ...

Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five ...

Catharine Esther Beecher

A Virtue peculiarly American and democratic--In aristocratic Countries, Labor considered degrading--The Hours of Sunlight generally devoted to Labor by the working Classes, and to Sleep by the indolent and wealthy--Sunlight necessaiy to ...
Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions

Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions

Catharine Esther Beecher

The issue of women's education was a controversial one in the second half of the 19th century. By discussing her own educational training, Beecher presents her views in support of higher education for women.
House and Home Papers

House and Home Papers

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This 1865 volume by Harriet Beecher Stowe was originally published under the psuedonym Christopher Crowfield. The volume contains short stories and essays revolving around subjects of cookery and domestic economy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America

Henry Elliot

Details the life and achievements of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe whose book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is said to have started the Civil War.
Twayne's United States authors series

Twayne's United States authors series

John R. Adams

The standard study of Miss Catherine or (note the variant spelling) Catharine Beecher as educator is Catharine Esther Beecher, Pioneer Educator ( Philadelphia, 1932), by Mae Elizabeth Harve- son; appreciation of her leadership in home ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman.
The Papal Conspiracy Exposed, and Protestantism Defended: In ...

The Papal Conspiracy Exposed, and Protestantism Defended: In ...

Edward Beecher

... at Wittemberg. at the east gate, near the Holy Cross, ALL THE POPE's Books, the Decree, the Decreta's, the Extravagante of Clement VI., Leo X.'s last bull, the . 4ngclic Sum, Eck's Chrysoprasus, and some other works of Eck's and Emser's.
Adrian City Directories

Adrian City Directories

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The politics of the universe: Edward Beecher, abolition, and ...

The politics of the universe: Edward Beecher, abolition, and ...

Robert Merideth

LB, "The Bible a Code of Laws," A Sermon Given at the Ordination of Sereno E. Dwight as Pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, September 3, 1817, Autobiography, I, 352-353; quoted in part in Mae Elizabeth Harve- son, Catharine Esther ...
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