Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... Mary Hubbard died a few weeks after Harriet's second birthday . However , poor Mary's story was often retold in the house after Harriet reached impressionable years , and told in full detail , since the Beecher family , though puritan ...
... Mary Hubbard died a few weeks after Harriet's second birthday . However , poor Mary's story was often retold in the house after Harriet reached impressionable years , and told in full detail , since the Beecher family , though puritan ...
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... Mary in Jamaica . In her new home she found a family of mulatto children fathered by her bridegroom with one of his slave women . It was a dreadful shock for a New England bride , whose horror was not mitigated by Hubbard's bewilderment ...
... Mary in Jamaica . In her new home she found a family of mulatto children fathered by her bridegroom with one of his slave women . It was a dreadful shock for a New England bride , whose horror was not mitigated by Hubbard's bewilderment ...
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... Mary's letter had been humble and conciliatory , but Catharine replied to it rather sharply from Detroit , where at the moment she was stopping with friends . Lost $ 500 , had Mary ? What about Catharine herself , who had drawn only ...
... Mary's letter had been humble and conciliatory , but Catharine replied to it rather sharply from Detroit , where at the moment she was stopping with friends . Lost $ 500 , had Mary ? What about Catharine herself , who had drawn only ...
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