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008			930212s1994 nyuaf b 001 0beng
010			_a 93016610
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020			_a0195066391
020			_a9780195066395
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050	0	0	_aPS2956 _b.H43 1994
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100	1		_aHedrick, Joan D., _d1944- _eauthor. _920167
245	1	0	_aHarriet Beecher Stowe : _ba life /
300			_axviii, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 474-487) and index.
505	0		_aNew England beginnings : 1811-1816 -- Nutplains : 1811-1816 -- Litchfield : 1816-1824 -- The Hardford Female Seminary : 1824-1827 -- Year of decision : 1827-1828 -- A republic of women : 1829-1832 -- The West : 1832-1833 -- Parlor literature : 1833-1834 -- Courtship and marriage : 1834-1836 -- Free men and free speech : 1834-1837 -- Domestic labor : 1836-1839 -- The nursery and the parlor : 1838-1841 -- A literary woman : 1839-1843 -- Signs of the times : 1843 -- In the tide-mud of the real : 1844-1845 -- The water cure : 1846-1848 -- Crossing the river : 1849-1850 -- A rush of mighty wind : 1850-1851 -- Cato's daughter : 1851-1853 -- Antislavery activist : 1853-1854 -- Andover, Kansas, and Europe : 1854-1857 -- Her father's and her mother's God : 1857-1859 -- The Atlantic and the ship of state : 1859-1864 -- Professional writer : 1863-1867 -- Florida and Oldtown folks : 1867-1869 -- Woman's rights and woman's wrongs : 1869-1872 -- Valedictory : 1870-1896
520			_a"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject ... But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-known work was first published in weekly installments from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852. It caused such a stir in both the North and South, and even in Great Britain, that when Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862 he is said to have greeted her with the words, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that created this great war!" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion who was also a mother of seven. It offers a lively record of the flourishing parlor societies that launched and sustained Stowe throughout the 44 years of her career, and the harsh physical realities that governed so many women's lives. The epidemics, high infant mortality, and often disastrous medical practices of the day are portrayed in moving detail, against the backdrop of western expansion, the great social upheaval accompanying the abolitionist movement, and the entry of women into public life. Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her beloved eighteen month old son, the drowning of another son, and the alcohol and morphine addictions of two of her other children. The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent ministers; Stowe channeled her anguish and her ambition into a socially acceptable anger on behalf of others, transforming her private experience into powerful narratives that moved a nation. Magisterial in its breadth and rich in detail, this definitive portrait explores the full measure of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life and her contribution to American literature. Perceptive and engaging, it illuminates the career of a major writer during the transition of literature from an amateur pastime to a profession, and offers a fascinating look at the pains, pleasures, and accomplishments of women's lives in the last century.
586			_aPulitzer Prize, Biography, 1995.
600	1	0	_aStowe, Harriet Beecher, _d1811-1896. _920168
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _920169
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y19th century _vBiography. _97106
650		0	_aAbolitionists _zUnited States _vBiography. _920118
653	0		_aEnglish fiction
653	0		_aUnited States
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _9136344
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _94711
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHedrick, Joan D., 1944- _tHarriet Beecher Stowe. _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1994 _w(OCoLC)903444016
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/93016610-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/93016610-d.html
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