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.

The Beecher Sisters

Biographies & Memoirs

White, Barbara A.

Community & Culture

Yale University Press

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.

Barbara White has written a thoroughly researched, detailed description of patterns of women's experience in fiction for adolescents. This well-written study should be required reading for graduate students and library school educators. It belongs in academic libraries, public libraries, and school libraries' professional collections and should be valuable reading for all adults who work with and/or live with adolescents. Choice

Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction (Contributions in Women's Studies)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Praeger

Barbara White has written a thoroughly researched, detailed description of patterns of women's experience in fiction for adolescents. This well-written study should be required reading for graduate students and library school educators. It belongs in academic libraries, public libraries, and school libraries' professional collections and should be valuable reading for all adults who work with and/or live with adolescents. Choice

Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction (Contributions in Women's Studies, 59)

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The ABCs of International Finance

Business & Money

Stamos, Steve

Pool, James Charles

Jones, Patrice Franko

Economics

Lexington Books

Visits With Lincoln: Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of his visitors and traces changes in his ideas and attitudes over the course of the war. The visitors include Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of Major General John Charles Fremont, the famous explorer and commander of the Union army's Department of the West; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Henry Ward Beecher, three members of the distinguished Beecher family; Frederick Douglas, former slave and recruiter of black soldiers; Anna Dickenson, Republican orator; William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, leaders of the Boston abolitionist movement; and Sojourner Truth, ex-slave and itinerant anti-slavery speaker.

History

Americas

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, to visit President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War. It paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of the visitors, who include a variety of important historical figures-Jessie Fremont, Carl Schurz, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Anna Dickinson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Sojourner Truth. Through their accounts, White traces changes in Lincoln's ideas and attitudes over the course of the war.

A Young Girl's Story of Strength and Courage to Overcome being Captured and made a Sex Slave to ISIS. Her Escape and Her Journey Back to Freedom are Compelling.

Nadja The Pearl of Sinjar: Nadja The Pearl of Sinjar: A detailed exposition of an innocent girl's capture by ISIS. She was brutally used, but remained ... sex slavery. This is her gripping account.

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The Beecher Sisters

The Beecher Sisters

Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction (Contributions in Women's Studies)

Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction (Contributions in Women's Studies, 59)

The ABCs of International Finance

Visits With Lincoln: Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House

Visits With Lincoln: Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House

Nadja The Pearl of Sinjar: Nadja The Pearl of Sinjar: A detailed exposition of an innocent girl's capture by ISIS. She was brutally used, but remained ... sex slavery. This is her gripping account.