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Harriet Beecher Stowe : (Record no. 31569)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 93016610
015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
National bibliography number GB9426256
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International Standard Book Number 0195066391
International Standard Book Number 9780195066395
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Language of cataloging eng
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS2956
Item number .H43 1994
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code s1an
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813/.3
Edition number 20
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Classification number 18.06
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hedrick, Joan D.,
Dates associated with a name 1944-
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 20167
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Harriet Beecher Stowe :
Remainder of title a life /
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-487) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note New England beginnings : 1811-1816 -- Nutplains : 1811-1816 -- Litchfield : 1816-1824 -- The Hardford Female Seminary : 1824-1827 -- Year of decision : 1827-1828 -- A republic of women : 1829-1832 -- The West : 1832-1833 -- Parlor literature : 1833-1834 -- Courtship and marriage : 1834-1836 -- Free men and free speech : 1834-1837 -- Domestic labor : 1836-1839 -- The nursery and the parlor : 1838-1841 -- A literary woman : 1839-1843 -- Signs of the times : 1843 -- In the tide-mud of the real : 1844-1845 -- The water cure : 1846-1848 -- Crossing the river : 1849-1850 -- A rush of mighty wind : 1850-1851 -- Cato's daughter : 1851-1853 -- Antislavery activist : 1853-1854 -- Andover, Kansas, and Europe : 1854-1857 -- Her father's and her mother's God : 1857-1859 -- The Atlantic and the ship of state : 1859-1864 -- Professional writer : 1863-1867 -- Florida and Oldtown folks : 1867-1869 -- Woman's rights and woman's wrongs : 1869-1872 -- Valedictory : 1870-1896
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-known work was first published in weekly installments from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852. It caused such a stir in both the North and South, and even in Great Britain, that when Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862 he is said to have greeted her with the words, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that created this great war!" 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. Hedrick takes readers into the multi-layered world of nineteenth-century morals and mores, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion who was also a mother of seven. It offers a lively record of the flourishing parlor societies that launched and sustained Stowe throughout the 44 years of her career, and the harsh physical realities that governed so many women's lives. The epidemics, high infant mortality, and often disastrous medical practices of the day are portrayed in moving detail, against the backdrop of western expansion, the great social upheaval accompanying the abolitionist movement, and the entry of women into public life. Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her beloved 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.
586 ## - AWARDS NOTE
Awards note Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1995.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
Dates associated with a name 1811-1896.
9 (RLIN) 20168
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women and literature
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Authors, American
Chronological subdivision 19th century
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Abolitionists
Geographic subdivision United States
Form subdivision Biography.
653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term English fiction
Uncontrolled term United States
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Biography.
Source of term fast
9 (RLIN) 136344
Genre/form data or focus term History.
Source of term fast
9 (RLIN) 4711
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Hedrick, Joan D., 1944-
Title Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
Record control number (OCoLC)903444016
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