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Here I stand : the life and legacy of John Beecher
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ISBN: 0817391371 9780817391379 9780817319540 0817319549 0817360190 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] : The University of Alabama Press,

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Tempest-tossed
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ISBN: 0819573884 9780819573889 9780819573407 081957340X Year: 2014 Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut

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First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture

The Beecher sisters
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ISBN: 1281741051 9786611741051 0300127634 9780300127638 9781281741059 0300099274 9780300099270 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The Beecher sisters-Catharine, Harriet, and Isabella-were three of the most prominent women in nineteenth-century America. Daughters of the famous evangelist Lyman Beecher, they could not follow their father and seven brothers into the ministry. Nonetheless, they carved out pathbreaking careers for themselves. Catharine Beecher founded the Hartford Female Seminary and devoted her life to improving women's education. Harriet Beecher Stowe became world famous as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Isabella Beecher Hooker was an outspoken advocate for women's rights.This engrossing book is a joint biography of the sisters, whose lives spanned the full course of the nineteenth century. The life of Isabella Beecher-who has never been the subject of a biography-is examined in particular detail here. Drawing on little used sources, Barbara White explores Isabella's political development and her interactions with her sisters and with prominent people of the time-from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Mark Twain.

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