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Presents an analysis of the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Traces the family of nineteenth-century author Harriet Beecher Stowe to the frontier town of Cincinnati where the influx of escaping slaves across the Kentucky border led her to write her classic novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

In a tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, David S. Reynolds reveals her book's impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence in the twentieth century. He explores how both Stowe's background as the daughter in a famously intellectual family of preachers and her religious visions were fundamental...

A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.

It is 1887, and Henry Ward Beecher lies dying. Reporters from around the world, eager for one last story about the most lurid scandal of their time, descend on Brooklyn Heights, their presence signaling the beginning of the voracious appetite for fallen celebrities we know so well today.When Henry Ward Beecher was put on trial for adultery in 1875, the question of his guilt or innocence was ferociously debated. His trial not only split the country,...

When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent spirit. Deeply religious, she strongly believes God has called...

Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that he betrays his race. Readers have long noted that...

When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled with romance, a family, and chances to develop as a writer -- Calvin has said she must be a literary woman, after all.Two months later, Harriet discovers she is pregnant just as Calvin prepares to leave for a European business trip. Alone, Hattie is overwhelmed -- being a wife has been harder than she thought and being an expectant mother feels like...