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Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life / Joan D. Hedrick.
LIBRA - Special PS2956 .H43 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedrick, Joan D., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- United States.
- History.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- The first biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the world of 19th century morals, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion.
- Contents:
- New England beginnings
- Nutplains
- Lutchfield
- The Hartford female seminary
- Year of decision
- A republic of women
- The West
- Parlor literature
- Courtship and marriage
- Free men and free speech
- Domestic labor
- The nursery and the parlor
- A literary woman
- Signs of the times
- In the tide-mud of the real
- The water cure
- Crossing the river
- A rush of mighty wind
- Cato's daughter
- Antislavery activist
- Andover, Kansas, and Europe
- Her father's and her mother's God
- The Atlantic and the ship of state
- Professional writer
- Florida and oldtown folks
- Woman's rights and woman's wrongs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-487) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195096398
- 9780195096392
- OCLC:
- 32812436
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