"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the ...
... Harriet Beecher Stowe confided to a friend.22 In author Louisa May Alcott's succinct words : " Housework ain't no joke ! " The new economic structure , with wage earners working in factories and offices and shops rather than at home ...
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Writer’s Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir
A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.
... IN Author ( London ) ( 18 c . ) for June . Dunn . How My MOTHER WROTE " UNCLE TOM'S CABIN . " Charles Edward Stowe ... ( Harriet Beecher Stowe ) . Rev. Charles Edward Stowe . Christian Register ( 9 c . ) for May 4 . THE AMERICAN ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE From the original drawing by George Richmond , London , 1853 , in possession of her grandson ... in " Author and Friends " : " Mrs. Stowe's personal appearance has received scant justice and no mercy at the ...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE From the original drawing by George Richmond , London , 1853 , in possession of her grandson ... in " Author and Friends " : " Mrs. Stowe's personal appearance has received scant justice and no mercy at the ...
... Harriet Beecher Stowe provides an excellent example of the way the ex- pectation of dramatic personal change was ... in " Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity . " As I explain in chap- ter 5 , his choice of terms is particularly ...