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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe — John Shaqi

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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

Name: Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Women abolitionists -- United States -- Biography

THIRD VISIT TO EUROPE.--LADY BYRON ON "THE MINISTER'S
  WOOING."--SOME FOREIGN PEOPLE AND THINGS AS THEY APPEARED TO
  PROFESSOR STOWE.--A WINTER IN ITALY.--THINGS UNSEEN AND
  UNREVEALED.--SPECULATIONS CONCERNING SPIRITUALISM.--JOHN
  RUSKIN.--MRS. BROWNING.--THE RETURN TO AMERICA.--LETTERS TO DR.
  HOLMES                                                            343


  CHAPTER XVI.

  THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-1865.

  THE OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR.--MRS. STOWE'S SON
  ENLISTS.--THANKSGIVING DAY IN WASHINGTON.--THE PROCLAMATION OF
  EMANCIPATION.--REJOICINGS IN BOSTON.--FRED STOWE AT
  GETTYSBURG.--LEAVING ANDOVER AND SETTLING IN HARTFORD.--A REPLY
  TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND.--LETTERS FROM JOHN BRIGHT, ARCHBISHOP
  WHATELY, AND NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE                                  363


  CHAPTER XVII.

  FLORIDA, 1865-1869.

  LETTER TO DUCHESS OF ARGYLL.--MRS. STOWE DESIRES TO HAVE A HOME
  AT THE SOUTH.--FLORIDA THE BEST FIELD FOR DOING GOOD.--SHE BUYS
  A PLACE AT MANDARIN.--A CHARMING WINTER RESIDENCE.--"PALMETTO
  LEAVES."--EASTER SUNDAY AT MANDARIN.--CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR.
  HOLMES.--"POGANUC PEOPLE."--RECEPTIONS IN NEW ORLEANS AND
  TALLAHASSEE.--LAST WINTER AT MANDARIN                             395


  CHAPTER XVIII.

  OLDTOWN FOLKS, 1869.

  PROFESSOR STOWE THE ORIGINAL OF "HARRY" IN "OLDTOWN
  FOLKS."--PROFESSOR STOWE'S LETTER TO GEORGE ELIOT.--HER REMARKS
  ON THE SAME.--PROFESSOR STOWE'S NARRATIVE OF HIS YOUTHFUL
  ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD OF SPIRITS.--PROFESSOR STOWE'S INFLUENCE
  ON MRS. STOWE'S LITERARY LIFE.--GEORGE ELIOT ON "OLDTOWN FOLKS"   419


  CHAPTER XIX.

  THE BYRON CONTROVERSY, 1869-1870.

  MRS. STOWE'S STATEMENT OF HER OWN CASE.--THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER
  WHICH SHE FIRST MET LADY BYRON.--LETTERS TO LADY BYRON.--LETTER
  TO DR. HOLMES WHEN ABOUT TO PUBLISH "THE TRUE STORY OF LADY
  BYRON'S LIFE" IN THE "ATLANTIC."--DR. HOLMES'S REPLY.--THE
  CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER                                          445


  CHAPTER XX.

  GEORGE ELIOT.

  CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE ELIOT.--GEORGE ELIOT'S FIRST
  IMPRESSIONS OF MRS. STOWE.--MRS. STOWE'S LETTER TO MRS.
  FOLLEN.--GEORGE ELIOT'S LETTER TO MRS. STOWE.--MRS. STOWE'S
  REPLY.--LIFE IN FLORIDA.--ROBERT DALE OWEN AND MODERN
  SPIRITUALISM.--GEORGE ELIOT'S LETTER ON THE PHENOMENA OF
  SPIRITUALISM.--MRS. STOWE'S DESCRIPTION OF SCENERY IN
  FLORIDA.--MRS. STOWE CONCERNING "MIDDLEMARCH."--GEORGE ELIOT
  TO MRS. STOWE DURING REV. H. W. BEECHER'S TRIAL.--MRS. STOWE
  CONCERNING HER LIFE EXPERIENCE WITH HER BROTHER, H. W. BEECHER,
  AND HIS TRIAL.--MRS. LEWES' LAST LETTER TO MRS. STOWE.--DIVERSE
  MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE TWO WOMEN.--MRS. STOWE'S FINAL
  ESTIMATE OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM                                   459


  CHAPTER XXI.

  CLOSING SCENES, 1870-1889.

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