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| #2036246 in Books | 1994-01-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.56 x1.83 x6.56l, | File type: PDF | 544 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A very well constructed view of 19th century America|By a reader|The author covers a lot more than the life of HBS in this book. While Ms. Hedrick does a very strong job of covering her subject, she does an equally thorough job of diving into the social, political, religious and literary issues and events of the era. The author goes in-depth on the role of women in American s|.com |Harriet Beecher Stowe, daughter of a preacher, married to a poor Biblical scholar, and mother of nine, had the early good fortune of an education at a school founded by her feminist older sister. To help support her family, Stowe began to write. In 1851,
"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 Cab...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life | Joan D. Hedrick. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
