"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
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 ...
... 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 ...
A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.
... 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 ...
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 ...