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The Beecher sisters  Cover Image Book Book

The Beecher sisters /

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  • ISBN: 0300099274 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 399 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-378) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. Satan," 1871-1872 -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal, 1872-1875 -- Spiritualism, 1875-1878 -- Losses, 1878-1887 -- The board of lady managers, 1888-1893.
Subject: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907.
Perkins, Mary Beecher, 1805-1900.
Beecher family.
Sisters > United States > Biography.
Women > United States > Biography.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century.

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