Crusader in crinoline : the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / by Forrest Wilson
Material type: TextPublisher: Westport, Conneticut : J. B. Lippincott Company c1941Edition: First editionDescription: 706 pages : black and white illustrations and photographs ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0837161916
- PS 2956 .W5 1941
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This item contains a genealogical record of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The internal back cover of this resource contains a sepia illustration of the 13th amendment being signed, and a person of color shrugging off chains.
This item contains black and white illustrations including recreations from Uncle Tom's Cabin, locations in Harriet Beccher Stowe's life, and portraits of contemporaneous abolitionists.
This book contains black and white photographs of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family.
Contains bibliographic references (pages 643-657) and index.
Litchfield, 1811-1824: the blessed village -- Entry into Israel --
Hartford, 1824-1832: a boyless childhood --
Cincinnati, 1832-1850: London of the West -- First adjustments -- The literary clubs -- End of spinsterhood -- Suitor and husband -- Brush with slavery -- Hard times -- The drab years --
Brunswick, 1850-1852: immigrant woman -- Woman of Carthage -- Success story --
Andover, 1852-1864: Harriet in battle -- First woman of America -- Queen of Scots -- Lioness in London -- Harriet as tourist -- National leader -- Strictly confidential -- The gathering storm -- Harriet in her war --
Hartford, 1864-1896: Harriet in Mr. Lincoln's war -- Heyday of a career -- Catastrophe -- Afternoon of of a career -- Harriet in a storm -- Rainbow at night -- Happy birthday -- "And now I rest me".
In Crusader in Crinoline, Forest Wilson recounts that life and times of Harriet Beecehr Stowe. The book follows her life, from birth until death. Stowe worked with American abolitionists and proto-feminists throughout her life, and her activism is recorded throughout this work. Couple with images of her family and her associates, this pieces works to fill in a picture of the abolition movement in the United States, and how abolitionists interacted with the United States government before the American Civil War, during the conflict, and afterwards. Overall, Crusader in Crinoline tells the life story of Hariet Beecher Stowe, and paints a picture of the radical and progressive movements that she associated with. --From the cataloger
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