Harriet Beecher Stowe : a spiritual life / Nancy Koester.

  • Koester, Nancy, 1954-
Date:
2013
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy Koester's biography highlights Stowe's faith as central to her life -- both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God. Having meticulously researched Stowe's own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe's faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvinism through spiritualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative." --from book description, Amazon.com.

Publication/Creation

Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Cambridge, England : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.

Physical description

xi, 371 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

This old house -- Your daughter, sir! -- On the waves -- We mean to turn over the west -- Nobody knows who -- A deep, immortal longing -- If I live -- Uncle Tom's cabin: the story of the age -- I grant I am a woman -- Harriet takes London -- A reformer's pilgrimage -- By thy wrath are we troubled -- The minister's wooing -- The galling harness of war -- A real and living power -- The queen bee of that hive -- Moonshiny mazes -- Resolved into love.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Stowe)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780802833044
  • 0802833047