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21. The Cambridge Introduction to
 
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22. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography
 
23. The Novels of Harriet Beecher
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24. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the
 
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26. Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers:
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27. Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
28. I Shall Not Live in Vain: The
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29. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Impact
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30. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
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31. A Picture Book of Harriet Beecher
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33. The Minister's Wooing (Penguin
 
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38. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
 
39. Crusader in Crinoline: The Life
 
40. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Bibliography

21. The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Sarah Robbins
Paperback: 154 Pages (2007-03-19)
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Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important authors in nineteenth-century America. Today, her reputation is more complex, and Uncle Tom's Cabin has been debated and analysed in many different ways. This book provides a summary of Stowe's life and her long career as a professional author, as well as an overview of her writings in several different genres. Synthesizing scholarship from a range of perspectives, the book positions Stowe's work within the larger framework of nineteenth-century culture and attitudes about race, slavery and the role of women in society. Sarah Robbins also offers reading suggestions for further study. This introduction provides students of Stowe with a richly informed and accessible introduction to this fascinating author. ... Read more


22. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Biography
by Noel Bertram Gerson
 Hardcover: 218 Pages (1976-06)
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23. The Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Alice C. Crozier
 Hardcover: 248 Pages (1969-10-15)
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Isbn: 019500521X
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24. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers
by Jean Fritz
Hardcover: 144 Pages (1994-09-15)
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in a family in which her seven brothers were expected to be successful preachers and the four girls were never to speak in public. But slavery made Harriet so angry she couldn't keep quiet. Although she used a pen rather than her voice to convince people of the evils of slavery, she became more famous than any of her brothers. She firmly believed that words could make change, and by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe hastened the Civil War and changed the course of America history."Readable and engrossing."-- The Horn Bookn"Fritz writes with verve and wit....Many kids will be stimulated to go on from here to find out more."-- Booklist (boxed review) ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Jean Fritz Makes a Masterpiece of the Beecher Family in Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers
When I hear the word `biography', the first thing I think is another boring book of facts.But Jean Fritz keeps her reader's interested, talking in a conversational tone, while weaving the tale of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life during the Civil War.You watch the influential writer and her family grow - facing much hardship and happiness.I would give this book five stars.Anyone who is interested in life during the civil war - well, Harriet's life at least, should definitely read this book.I would recommend it to kids 10-15.

4-0 out of 5 stars I recommend it!
Jean Fritz does a wonderful job with this short biography for young adults. It's easy to read and gives lots of information on Harriet's life without boring you or causing your brain to feel overstuffed. There are pictures as well. I recommend this book for everyone, and it was a big help in my research.

5-0 out of 5 stars just what i needed
This book was recomended to my by one of my study books after I finished reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book gives you insightful information about Harriet and her family, but does not make it dull. It is not to long of a book perfect for those readers who don't want to waste time on extra information. This book made me want to study further on about Harriet Beecher Stowe and learn more about her. I highly recomend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about someone and their part of making history. ... Read more


25. Harriet and the Runaway Book: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Johanna Johnston
 Hardcover: 80 Pages (1977-02-01)
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Isbn: 0060228407
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26. Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida (Florida History and Culture)
by JR., JOHN T. FOSTER, SARAH WHITMER FOSTER
Hardcover: 184 Pages (1999-05-14)
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Asin: 0813016460
Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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1-0 out of 5 stars Kill it now before it breeds
Florida history remains a bit of a wilderness so any book looking at the past of the Sunshine State should be a valuable contribution but this book fails to offer much of anything. The Fosters look at a number of Northeners who moved to Florida during and after the Civil War and how they attempted to transform the culture of Florida. The subjects include Harriet Beecher Stowe and her brother as well as Harrison Reed and his wife Chloe. The Fosters offer little on Stowe that can not be found in a number of other works, including Joan Hedrick's Pulitzer prize winning biography. Their take on the Reeds seems a bit off. While they are solid on Chloe, an idealistic school teacher who came down South during the war to teach freed slaves at Amelia Island and North Carolina, they misread Harrison Reed. Reed was no idealist to say the least nor did he share his wife's commitments to helping the freedmen. While a freesoiler before the war, Reed was a political opponent of the abolitionists and their champions at the national level (namely Salmon P. Chase who had a grudge with Reed when Reed worked for Chase's Treasury Department). Reed was a supporter of President Andrew Johnson, no friend to the freedman to be sure. It's a not uncommon phenomenon in American politics; centrist politician and liberal wife (think FDR and Clinton for example). Reed simply was not the saint the Fosters portray him as. For a much better and accurate portrait of the Reeds, take a look at Richard Current's "Those Terrible Carpetbaggers" (and yes the name is ironic).

The Fosters misreading of Reed is indicative of a larger problem. For a work of Florida history, this book seems firmly ungrounded in Florida's past. While 19th century Florida again remains a bit of a historic frontier, the Fosters seem to think that there was nothing in Florida before Reconstruction. Furthermore, they seem to think that the transformation of Florida started with the travel literature and high culture that the Stowe circle created. This is not acceptable. While the Fosters may not wish to open their eyes to it, there was one man who transformed Florida and he did it with iron and cash as opposed to books and newspapers. Henry Flager, for better or for worse, with his hotels and railways did much more to transform Florida than the Stowes and Reeds ever did. It may be easier on the soul to think that noble writers like Mrs. Stowe did much more to change Florida than a ruthless womanizer like Flager but it simply is not true.

The Fosters seem content to think that Florida was transformed by a number of noble do gooders from up North. Those that take the past seriously should ignore their siren song and confront the past in its reality, now matter how harsh it is. This book, while readable, has little grounding in history and the basic primary and secondary sources. Needless to say this pleasant whitewashing of the past should be ignored. ... Read more


27. Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Philip McFarland
Hardcover: 320 Pages (2007-11-10)
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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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“So you’re the little lady who started the war,” Abraham Lincoln is rumored to have said when he met the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s groundbreaking novel forced an ambivalent North to confront the atrocities of slavery, yet her accomplishment was just one of many of the Beechers, the most eminent American family of the nineteenth century. In this intimate account, historian Philip McFarland follows the Beecher clan to the frontier boom town of Cincinnati, where Harriet’s glimpses of slavery across the Kentucky border moved her to pen Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We meet Harriet’s foremost loves: her father Lyman, her husband Calvin, and her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher of his time whose trial for adultery riveted the nation. And as McFarland traces the arc of Harriet’s literary career from her hardscrabble beginnings as a freelancer to her ascendancy as the most renowned writer of the age, he crafts her family’s story into a detailed rendering of mid-nineteenth-century America in the midst of social and demographic explosions that are still being felt to this day.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Loves
Every American should read this book. It came to me as a gift, and, to be frank, I took it up reluctantly. I mean, who wants to read about a sanctimonious busybody, once influential, now largely forgotten but for her famous book fluttered before your face in junior high? Within pages, that question became its opposite: who doesn't? Having picked the book up, I couldn't put it down. The story is utterly absorbing, filled with passion, filled with pathos - religious fervor, Civil War, its prelude, its aftermath, the Gilded Age. It is the story of public triumph - that famous book again, plus many others - and private grief - the drowning of a beloved son, the disappearance of another in San Francisco, pursued by demons, the trials of a famous brother. The writing is brilliant, even breathtaking, like some wild Disney ride, but that is not what distinguishes the book. What does is the organization of voices, events, incidents, themes. All are woven into a seamless tapestry made up of many, many intensely colored threads. The rush of narative delights, but ultimately it is the intricate pattern that holds your attention. A perfect giift for anyone interested in 19 c. America.

PS Ignore that foolish review in PW.

5-0 out of 5 stars Another Hit From McFarland
"I love everybody," Harriet Beecher Stowe once told an acquaintance.Of course, this wasn't entirely true, for there were certainly those she didn't like at all.But love was surely a motivating force in her life."She was impelled by love," wrote her son Charles, "and did what she did, and wrote what she did, under the impulse of love."
And thus we have Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the title of Phillip McFarland's excellent new biography.McFarland's book focuses on those Mrs. Stowe loved most: her husband, Calvin Stowe; her father, Lyman Beecher; and her famous brother, Henry Ward Beecher.There were many others she loved, of course, including her children, her other siblings, and her many friends.But by focusing on these three men, McFarland enables us, in a highly original way, to understand Mrs. Stowe and what drove her.
She wrote the most important, influential book of the 19th century -- Uncle Tom's Cabin.She also penned several other novels and countless articles in magazines and newspapers.That she managed to write much of this while keeping house and raising little ones is nothing short of remarkable.But then, as one learns from reading this book, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a remarkable woman.
Phillip McFarland is one of the premier biographers in the U.S. today.His previous biographies on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were critically acclaimed, though they did not make any best-seller lists.Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe adds to his reputation.McFarland writes beautiful prose, and he has an exceptional ability to get inside his subject.Read this book, and you will come to know Harriet Beecher Stowe intimately. ... Read more


28. I Shall Not Live in Vain: The Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the New England Author Whose Book Changed Attitudes About Slavery (Greatness With)
by Gloria Hooker, Michael Hackett
 Hardcover: 118 Pages (1978-08)
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Isbn: 057007875X
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29. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Impact Biographies)
by Suzanne M. Coil
Library Binding: 192 Pages (1993-10)
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30. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Sourcebook (Routledge Literary Sourcebooks)
Paperback: 200 Pages (2003-11-14)
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Expanding the Routledge Literary Sourcebooks series to include the polemic that helped to instigate the Civil War, this sourcebook on Uncle Tom's Cabin explains the context and the numerous debates surrounding the novel. Covering a variety of critical viewpoints: abolition and racism, domesticity and Christian charity, this book also contains chapters on Harriet Beecher Stowe's life and development as an author and the work in performance. This introduction will help every student come to a better understanding of this watershed text in American literature. ... Read more


31. A Picture Book of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Picture Book Biography)
by David A. Adler
Paperback: 32 Pages (2004-09-30)
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Asin: 0823418782
Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Author of instant bestseller "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe dared to expose the horrors of slavery at a time when the American public was finally ready to acknowledge this terrible injustice. ... Read more

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1-0 out of 5 stars a young child who just learned to read!
I really loved this book, the pictures were great and yet it still had a message. ... Read more


32. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barron's Book Notes)
by Elsa Dixler
Paperback: 130 Pages (1985-11)
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Isbn: 081203600X
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5-0 out of 5 stars One of My All-time Favorites
I read this book originally to understand what was meant by the statement: "He's an Uncle Tom." This was usually said as a derogatoy statement. After reading the book I don't think this statement has beenused correctly. As a Christian who loves the Lord I have to rate it as oneof the best books that every Christian should read. I guess the derogatorystatement comes from what looks like a black man being in willingsubmission to his master. From a Christian's point of view it is actually aman of God being in submission to His God.

As it was originally writtento expose the life of slavery the book obviously does that very well. Iheard that Abraham Lincoln said to Harriett Beecher Stowe upon meeting her,"So, you're the women responsible for starting the Civil War."Her account of slavery is vividally brutal.

With these two aspects inmind I can say that this book has a tremendous affect on my thinking. Thehorrors of slavery along w/the reality of God working in the lives of both'slave & free' are what remain in my thoughts. After reading UncleTom's Cabin I'm reminded that we Christians are to have the heart of aservant following Jesus' example. ... Read more


33. The Minister's Wooing (Penguin Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Paperback: 384 Pages (1999-08-01)
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Asin: 0140437029
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's domestic comedy is a powerful examination of slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.

First published in 1859, and set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel and domestic comedy that satirizes Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and moral integrity while critiquing its rigid theology. Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle-class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery. The pious Mary admires him but is also in love with the passionate but skeptical James Marvyn who, hungry for adventure, joins the crew of a ship setting sail for exotic destinations. When James is presumed lost at sea, Mary fears for his soul, and consents to marry the good Doctor. With important insights on slavery, history, and gender, as well as characters based on historical figures, The Minister's Wooing is, as Susan Harris notes in her Introduction, "an historical novel, like Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter or Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie or A New England Tale; it is an attempt through fiction to create a moral, intellectual, and affective history for New England." ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Not a Bad Summer Reading Choice
I read this novel for the purpose of completeing a summer assignment for my AP US history Class. It had a decnet plotline and is by the obviously reputable Stowe. A very interesting historical novel that kept me entertained enough to finish and wirte a paper about. Focuses on slavery in new england and the love between a minister and the daughter of the woman with whom he is residing.

5-0 out of 5 stars The Agony of Salvation and a Theology of Love
The Minister's Wooing is the first of Harriet Beecher Stowe's three great novels of New England religion, that weave scenes and folklore of New England life with the debates and religious agonies that led her from her father's Edwardsian revivalist Calvinism to evangelical Episcopalianism. Of the three, The Minister's Wooing is the most satisfying as a story, although Oldtown Folks and Poganuc People give a fuller panorama of old New England life. (David Hackett Fischer used them extensively in his social history of the American colonies, Albion's Seed.) Mrs. Stowe improved her style greatly after Uncle Tom's Cabin which, while powerful as a moral indictment of slavery, is rather poorly written in many passages.

In her New England novels, Mrs. Stowe looks back on her childhood world in Puritan New England, justifying both her desertion of some of its most tightly-held tenets and the high honor she continued to pay to its legacy. To claim that she satirizes Calvinism is a grotesque misreading, sadly typical of most introductions to her novels which desire to place her as a forbearer of secular feminism and social radicalism, rather than let her be what in fact she was, an evangelical, a Republican, and an ardent advocate of the Christianization of American society.

The Minister's Wooing is set around 1798-1800 in Newport, Rhode Island, at a time just after the American Revolution. Real historical characters in the novel include Samuel Hopkins and Aaron Burr, Jr., leading pupil and grandson, respectively, of the great theologian Jonathan Edwards. While the author freely changes events in these characters' lives (Hopkins, for example, had been a foe of slavery and the slave-trade since 1776, long before the novel's time), her interpretation of these characters, both of whom she had met growing up, is insightful.

Mrs. Stowe contrasts the culturally spare and logocentric world of early New England with the visual opulence which she inhabited in genteel America of the mid-nineteenth century. How to relate the insular New England Christianity of her childhood to the Christianity of Raphael, and the great cathedrals of Europe she visited as an adult? This theme is introduced both in her narrative voice (St. Augustine's Enchiridion of Faith, Love, and Hope is cited without name at the novel's turning point) and in the character of Mme de Frontignac, a French aristocratic woman in an unhappy marriage. She introduces the New England matrons to the feminine beauty of France yet finds balm for her wounds in the severe virtues of Protestant New England. Clothe the chaste Protestant New England spirit in a elegant French Catholic gentility, Mrs. Stowe seems to be saying.

The theological groundwork is made more explicit in Oldtown Folks, but briefly, Mrs. Stowe believed that Jonathan Edwards, with his impossibly high standards for Christian life and his revivalist focus on a dramatic conversion experience, knocked the motherly old Puritan consensus exemplified by Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana off kilter and created almost unbearable tensions in many New Englanders. Who can be saved? What was the use of anything in a world where only an infinitesimal number could escape hell? How can we bear the thought of loving God who seems to condemn so many of our own flesh and blood to eternal damnation? Wrestling with these questions paradoxically gave the Yankees energy as they burst their cocoon, trading in China, fighting the Revolution,and allying with France. Some, like Aaron Burr, Jr., responded by embracing the skepticism of the philosophes. Others like James Marvyn's mother slowly expire, tormented by antinomies they can't resolve and unable to find the Gospel of Christ's love in the mazes of predestination. Some, like the deliciously nasty Simeon Brown, use the logical intricacies of Calvinist theology to cover up their utterly unconverted heart.

Mrs. Stowe's own answer is given in part by the exemplary character of Mary Scudder (whose role is taken by Harry Percival in Oldtown Folks), and in part by the Gospel wisdom of the black slave Candace. Mrs. Stowe's answer seems contradictory: in Mary Scudder she says children raised in a truly Christian society (as New England was and America must be) are born not depraved but naturally Christian and saved. In Candace, however, she points to the harder but more believable good news that Christ died for and loves even real sinners. Tragically Mrs. Stowe, like New England theologians generally, ingnored Holy Baptism as God's objective Gospel sign showing His good will toward the little children. Thus she ironically sought comfort and assurance through the image of Mary Scudder in the same impossible ideal of purely holy living that in Jonathan Edwards' hands had begun the madness.

Finally, Mrs. Stowe recasts the theological question of grace and nature into a meditation on the relation between familial (romantic, filial, and parental) love and love of God. Despite her sympathies with Catholicism, Mrs. Stowe firmly sets aside the monastic ideal that sees family love as in competition with love of God. Instead she sees the former as the true stepping stone to the latter. God planted in our hearts this bond of love to our families, even for those who we fear are rejecting Him, because it is this human love that leads us to Him. For Mrs. Stowe, the Christian home is truly God's school of character; desecration of that school is veritable blasphemy.

If all this sounds rather too thoughtful and theological, this is, as Mrs. Stowe states, the problem with old New England. It was born and conceived in theology and a novel true to that ethos must itself be thoughtful and theological. There is humor here, sudden plot turns, pathos, shrewd observation of character, and lovely description of North American nature, but the heart of the novel is a theology of love, divine and human.

4-0 out of 5 stars An underrated book by Stowe, Overshadowed by Uncle Tom
I had to read this book for a Neglected Novels of the 19th century class.Stowe's examination into the problems of calvinism and the role of women in American society are insightful.Stowe's prose is entertianing and clear, but can be a bit droning, especially if the reader isn't acquainted with the style of 19th century novels.Overall I'd recomend this book to anyone who enjoys 19th century Lit. ... Read more


34. Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe: The Journal of Charles Beecher
by Charles Beecher
 Hardcover: 382 Pages (1986-01)
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35. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Classic Storytellers) (Classic Storytellers)
by Michele Griskey
Library Binding: 48 Pages (2005-06-02)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a typical, well-behaved 19th century mother and wife, but she was very angry. She wanted more than anything to see the end of slavery in the United States, but what could she do? Harriet picked up her pen and wrote a story. She wrote about the injustice of slavery, but most importantly, she wrote a story that showed slaves feel the same joys and pains that all humans feel. Originally, published in monthly installments in a newspaper, Harriet’s story became a popular novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel helped many people see slavery in a new light and was an important catalyst for change that eventually led to the end of slavery in the United States. What could one woman do? One woman could do quite a bit! ... Read more


36. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Junior World Biographies)
by Celia Bland
 Library Binding: 79 Pages (1993-03)
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Isbn: 0791017737
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37. United States Authors Series - Harriet Beecher Stowe (United States Authors Series)
by Adams John
 Hardcover: 131 Pages (1989-03-01)
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Asin: 0805775323
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Twayne's United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.

Each volume features:

  • A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works
  • A brief biography of the author
  • An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historicalbackground of the author
  • Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index
  • A readable style presented in a manageable length
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5-0 out of 5 stars Harriet Beecher Stowe from A to Z in less than 131 pages!
John R. Adams's "Harriet Beecher Stowe: Updated Edition," in the Twayne's United States Authors Series is a short and succinct biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe from A to Z in less than 131 pages.No small task considering her influence on 19th century America.

Adam's book includes a chronology of events that serves as an excellent outline of the major events in Stowe's life.The book also includes a section on research notes, a selected bibliography and it includes a detailed index.

The book in organized by major life periods, such as her moving to Cincinnati and her publication of"Uncle Tom's Cabin."The book will serve those who require a significant understanding of Stowe without spending a lot of time reading larger biographies of her life.Therefore, it can be describe as an excellent introductory text.Well suitable for those studying American Civil War history, American literature, American religious history or women's history.

John R. Adams is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California.

5-0 out of 5 stars Harriet Beecher Stowe from A to Z in less than 131 pages!
John R. Adams's "Harriet Beecher Stowe: Updated Edition," in the Twayne's United States Authors Series is a short and succinct biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe from A to Z in less than 131 pages.No small task considering her influence on 19th century America.

Adam's book includes a chronology of events that serves as an excellent outline of the major events in Stowe's life.The book also includes a section on research notes, a selected bibliography and it includes a detailed index.

The book in organized by major life periods, such as her moving to Cincinnati and her publication of"Uncle Tom's Cabin."The book will serve those who require a significant understanding of Stowe without spending a lot of time reading larger biographies of her life.Therefore, it can be describe as an excellent introductory text.Well suitable for those studying American Civil War history, American literature, American religious history or women's history.

While John R. Adams is not an historian, he has clearly contributed to our understanding of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her writings.He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California. ... Read more


38. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bloom's Notes)
 Library Binding: 72 Pages (1996-06)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published in 1852, and within a year had sold more than 300,000 copies in the United States and well over 2 million worldwide. This influential work is said to have helped bring about the Civil War. This volume offers a brief biography about the author, as well as critical and bibliographical information on the novel. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. ... Read more


39. Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Robert Forrest Wilson
 Hardcover: 706 Pages (1972-10-27)
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Isbn: 0837161916
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An absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. ... Read more


40. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Bibliography
by Margaret Holbrook Hildreth
 Hardcover: Pages (1976-09)
list price: US$29.50
Isbn: 0208015965
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