Harriet Beecher Stowe A Life |
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| Author:
| Hedrick, Joan D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-509639-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.99 |
Book Description:
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BLWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for best biographyStill debated today for its portrayal of African-Americans, Stowe's best-known work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, caused such a stir on publication that when she met President Lincoln in 1862 he greeted her with the words, `So you are the woman who wrote the book that created this great war!'. This is the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher-Stowe in over fifty years. Joan Hedrick takes the reader into the multi-layered world of...
More DescriptionBLWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for best biographyStill debated today for its portrayal of African-Americans, Stowe's best-known work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, caused such a stir on publication that when she met President Lincoln in 1862 he greeted her with the words, `So you are the woman who wrote the book that created this great war!'. This is the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher-Stowe in over fifty years. Joan Hedrick takes the reader into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores in this absorbing story of a gifted and complex writer whose place in the canon is still contended.