Author: Annie Fields
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Nancy Koester
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802833047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats. Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy Koester's biography highlights Stowe s faith as central to her life -- both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God. Having meticulously researched Stowe s own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe's faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvinism through spiritualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative.

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Philip McFarland
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The 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

Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448483017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to help escaped slaves head north towards freedom. The publication of her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a scathing anti-slavery novel, fanned the flames that started the Civil War. The book’s emotional portrayal of the impact of slavery captured the nation’s attention. A best-seller in its time, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sealed Harriet Beecher Stowe’s reputations as one of the most influential anti-slavery voices in US history.

Author: Cindy Weinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel. Cindy Weinstein comprehensively investigates Stowe's impact on the American literary tradition and the novel of social change.

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author: David A. Adler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823418787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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

Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780780780910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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By writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Harriet Beecher Stowe hastened the Civil War and changed the course of American history. In telling the life story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Fritz explores not only a life, but also a family, an era, and vitally important social achievements" ("School Library Journal", starred review).