Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
"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 Cabin.
In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman. Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her adored eighteen month old son, the drowning of another son, and the alcohol and morphine addictions of two of her other children. The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent ministers, Stowe channeled her anguish and her ambition into a socially acceptable anger on behalf of others, transforming her private experience into powerful narratives that moved a nation.
Magisterial in its breadth and rich in detail, this definitive portrait explores the full measure of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life, and her contribution to American literature. Perceptive and engaging, it illuminates the career of a major writer during the transition of literature from an amateur pastime to a profession, and offers a fascinating look at the pains, pleasures, and accomplishments of women's lives in the last century.
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"Today the very name [Uncle Tom's Cabin] conveys white paternalism and black passivity, but Hedrick points out that this unfairly ignores the 'freedom narrative' of a book that had an electrifying effect on the abolitionist cause.... Hedrick's illuminating biography of this remarkable woman won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize." — Amazon.com Reviews
Product Details
| Recommended Age | Adults |
|---|---|
| Author | Joan D. Hedrick |
| ISBN | 0195096398 |
| Publication Date | Jun 1, 1995 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Language | English |