Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Genres: Biography, History, Classics

608 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

Great political influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin , novel against slavery of 1852 of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, American writer, advanced the cause of abolition.

Lyman Beecher fathered Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, another child.

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, an author, attacked the cruelty, and reached millions of persons as a play even in Britain. She made the tangible issues of the 1850s to millions and energized forces in the north. She angered and embittered the south. A commonly quoted statement, apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln, sums up the effect. He met Stowe and then said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!" or so people say.

AKA:
Χάρριετ Μπήτσερ Στόου (Greek)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book to prepare to do a first-person impression of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and absolutely loved reading it. Harriet's personal letters--especially those to her close friends--are well-written and detailed, and are full of her personality and sense of humor. I particularly enjoyed some of her descriptions of the hectic daily life of being a young mother in Cincinnati with toddler twins and an infant.

The book includes many incidents in Harriet's life that are later echoed in her well-known book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which makes this volume an excellent book to read for primary source background material. I'm grateful that Harriet and her son Charles took time at the end of her life to gather these letters to share with later generations.

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book because of the connection between Harriet Beecher Stowe and the church where I work.

Mrs. Stowe was known for her writing, but she was also a great doer of good works. In the late 1860's she convinced her brother George, a minister to join the newly formed Episcopal Diocese in NE Florida to open a church in Mandarin Florida on the banks of the St. John's River.

Rev. Beecher and Mrs. Stowe did not get the parish started for another eight years, but in the interim, she and her brother built a small church and school for freed blacks who lived and farmed in Mandarin.

Her husband,Professor Stowe joined her every winter at their house among the orange groves. They eventually got the church on the river built, and Church of Our Saviour became an Episcopal parish that has a survived, and thrived to present time.

[Carole · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book. It was a very small book so I could get it read without much trouble.

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

An insightful bit of nonfiction that read like a novel. Excellent usage of primary sources to capture HBS's feelings, beliefs, and events of her life.

[Anita Schweppe · Rating 4 out of 5]

The nature of the woman herself may have influenced my review but this is an inspiring book.

[Aaron Spencer · Rating 2 out of 5]

the life of Harriet Beecher was less exciting then i expected it to be when i first read her biography of her life.what i didn't like was how different her life and up bring was compared to Fredrick Douglas simply from not being on a plantation and attending school and already knew how to read and write.i mean don;t get me wrong i enjoyed the story line i was just stocked at how differently she fought for her believes in life for black people.Prime example is that she mostly fought using words written in her books to her her points across. besides from that view point it was an average bio with some fascinating facts regarding her life from childhood.(660)

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written and compiled by her son, the happiest discovery as I read this was the inclusion of many of her letters which provide, in her own words, her opinions and perspectives on both her private life and on the pressing and distressing political and social issues of her day.
Reading her own thoughts, not in snippets, but in complete and personal letters, many of them to social or political influencers that she knew personally, added extra depth to this biography.
Highly recommended if you wish to better understand her life.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved learning details from the amazing and accomplished Harriet Beecher Stowe's life. I wish there were more details about her courtship and early days of marriage, but I loved Harriet's letter to Frederick Douglass, her interactions with authors such as George Eliot and Charles Dickens, and her thoughts while traveling around Europe. Fascinating!

I listened to this free audio version:
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[Jojo · Rating 4 out of 5]

i used to be obsessed with uncle tom's cabin.

[Galicius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read Chapter 18 "On Apparitions"

[Judith Kerr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did NOT read this book. Entered the wrong one!!

[Harlon & Marianne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned from this book. I confess that I have not read the whole thing. I was moved by how God seemed to give her the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin.