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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  ...
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  ...
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.
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.
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 Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cindy Weinstein

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
Palmetto-leaves

Palmetto-leaves

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Largely descriptive of the St. John's river region of Florida.
West's South Eastern Reporter

West's South Eastern Reporter

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Loretta Stowe Chrostowski, as administratrix of the estate of Robert Gene Stowe and as guardian of Sara Renee Stowe and Robert Adam Stowe, filed suit against G & MSS Trucking, Inc., Billy Wayne Milam, and Royal Indemnity Company ...
Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the ...

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the ...

Georgia. Court of Appeals

Loretta Stowe Chrostowski, as administratrix of the estate of Robert Gene Stowe and as guardian of Sara Renee Stowe and Robert Adam Stowe, filed suit against G & MSS Trucking, Inc., Billy Wayne Milam, and Royal Indemnity Company ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography

Noel Bertram Gerson

Recounts the eventful, creative life of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, highlighting her familial ties and many friendships and reassessing her literary achievement and importance
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Tell It All a Woman's Life in Polygamy

Tell It All a Woman's Life in Polygamy

Fanny Stenhouse

Numerous plates. Includes a preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe: In these pages, a woman, a wife and mother, speaks the sorrows and oppressions of which she has been the witness and the victim.
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The books are a series of letters, some written on the spot, some after the author's return home, of impressions as they arose, of her most agreeable visits to England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium during the first half of the ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
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.
Grandmother's Garden

Grandmother's Garden

May Brawley Hill

The writers Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Anna Bartlett Warner are part of the story, as are the photographers Frances and Mary Allen, and Wallace Nutting.

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