Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (From Her Letters and Journals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410218260 ISBN 13: 9781410218261

Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, 2004

Synopsis

CONTENTS Childhood, 1811-1824 School Days in Hartford, 1824-1832 Cincinnati, 1832-1836 Early Married Life, 1836-1840 Poverty and Sickness, 1840-1850 Removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 First Trip to Europe, 1853 Sunny Memories, 1853 From over the Sea, 1853 Home Again, 1853-1856 Dred, 1856 Old Scenes Revisited, 1856 The Minister's Wooing, 1857-1859 The Third Trip to Europe, 1859 The Civil War, 1860-1865 Florida, 1865-1869 Oldtown Folks, 1869 The Byron Controversy, 1869-1870 George Eliot Closing Scenes, 1870-1889

About this title

About the Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet s literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom s Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer s disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom s Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1410218260
• ISBN 13: 9781410218261
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 580