The passionate Beechers : a family saga of sanctity and scandal that changed America / Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr.
"When Abraham Lincoln first met Harriet Beecher Stowe in the 1860s he greeted her by saying "So this is the little lady who started this big war"--Referring to her wildly popular and influential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had galvanized Northern opposition to slavery. He cou...
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: "Thanks to God, we's free" 1
- 1 "The Chariot of Christ" 9
- 2 "Up for the war" 22
- 3 "No child prepared to die" 38
- 4 "Beloved and affectionate children" 58
- 5 "Oh, good Lord! Can we go through this?" 73
- 6 "I will write something. I will if I live" 114
- 7 "After all, what is a novel?" 149
- 8 "This war is killing me" 189
- 9 "Wait--wait--singing songs in the night" 232
- 10 "I will not lie there" 295
- 11 "In the flickering light of the dying embers" 335.