The Beecher sisters [electronic resource] / Barbara A. White.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.Description: xiii, 399 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s):- 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
- 920.72/0973 B 21
- CT274.B43 W48 2003eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-378) and index.
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.
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