Intimate details of Harriet Beecher Stowe's family life, friends, and love of writing are captured in this well-documented biography. As the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe had a profound effect on the hearts and minds of the American people in the 1850s. Bibliography. Index. Source Notes. Illustrated with photos and prints.
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Grade 7 Up-A richly detailed biography that presents a very human portrait of a woman who was devoted to her family and was instilled with a sense of social responsibility. Although this account traces the subject's entire life, it is particularly strong in its depiction of Stowe's battle to juggle her writing career with the demands of six children, the drudgery of 19th-century housework, and the burden of a hypochondriac husband. While the tremendous impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin is cogently stated, Coil does not make this her focus as do many Stowe biographers. The author's lesser-known works, as well as her shifting literary reputation, are also noted. Sixteen pages of clearly reproduced period photographs and illustrations complement the text. This is more personal and insightful than Robert Jakoubek's Harriet Beecher Stowe (Chelsea, 1989).
Pat Katka, San Diego Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Pat Katka, San Diego Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 7-12. Coil's admiring biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe creates a portrait of the celebrated author as a dutiful daughter; a committed abolitionist; a loving wife devoted to an often brilliant but ineffectual husband; and a compulsive, prolific writer who wrote everything from gothic romances to articles on the evils of alcohol in order to support her family. Adding a personal touch to the book are excerpts from Stowe's letters and works, many of which focus on the small hassles of daily life and the frustrations of trying to write. Readers will be most interested in how Stowe came to pen Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Coil does not disappoint them. She thoroughly documents the writing of the novel, its reception in the South (which prompted Stowe to write A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin to verify what she'd written in the novel), and the worldwide response to the book. The biography will be a useful addition to any collection, but it will be particularly helpful to students needing information about the years leading up to the Civil War, the work of the abolitionists, and the novel that "moved the world." Chris Sherman
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