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Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography for girls

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By Martha Foote Crow
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Aimed at young readers, the biography traces a woman's upbringing in a lively parsonage, her schooling and early teaching, and the domestic routines and literary pursuits that shaped her imagination. It follows her experiments in drama and short fiction, her marriage and large family life, encounters with slavery that prompted a famous anti‑slavery novel, years of illness and financial struggle, travels and public readings, and the personal losses and ongoing commitment to social causes that marked her later years. The narrative interweaves chronological chapters with letters and excerpts to illuminate character, creative process, and the social and moral concerns behind her writing.

FOOTNOTES:

1 From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. I, pp. 464-474.
2 From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. I, pp. 85-86.
3 See the productions of the wonderful lace and embroideries done by pupils of the Litchfield Female Academy in “Chronicles of a Pioneer School,” by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, 1903.
4 By Miss E. N. Vanderpoel, in her charming book, “Chronicles of a Pioneer School.”
5 Any one that would like to know more about this Aunt Esther, may well read the essay of Mrs. Stowe’s called “The Cathedral.” It is found in her book entitled “The Chimney Corner.” If Harriet could build a cathedral to suit herself she would have a place therein for “Saint” Esther.
6 From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. II, p. 224.
7 See a very interesting article by Benjamin R. Andrews, Ph.D., in The Journal of Home Economics for June, 1913, entitled, “Miss Catherine Beecher, The Pioneer in Home Economics.” Appended is a long list of her books.
8 See Miss Ida Tarbell’s essays on “The American Woman,” in The American Magazine, Dec. 1909, Vol. 69, p. 206.
9 Quoted by Miss Tarbell, p. 206.
10 By a queer freak of circumstance, this account of Mrs. Stowe’s life is now being written on the very table that adorned her parlor at Walnut Hills. It is a beautiful piece of rosewood and mahogany veneer, in a quaint old pattern which is now so rare as to be highly valued by collectors. It must have been one of her household treasures. Together with the rest of her furniture, it was sold when the family moved to Maine.
11 By west, she meant what was then to her the southwest, Kentucky, Missouri, etc., practically, the south.
12 See “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Chap. XLV.
13 Col. T. W. Higginson’s “Common Sense about Women.” 4th Ed., 1891, Swan Sonnenschein, London, p. 238.
14 Dowden’s “Life of Robert Browning,” p. 206.
15 A list of Mrs. Stowe’s works will be found on page 305.