Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... already re- garded as an old maid . She was prim , methodical , and a little cranky , with a horror of dirt , disorder , and waste . Her brass andirons showed no finger- prints , her red and green parlour carpet was fleckless , the ...
... already re- garded as an old maid . She was prim , methodical , and a little cranky , with a horror of dirt , disorder , and waste . Her brass andirons showed no finger- prints , her red and green parlour carpet was fleckless , the ...
Page 44
... already cheering every attack on the Connecticut lords spiritual , who clamped on every neck the iron enforcement of their puritan morality . Lyman Beecher himself , now the recognized leader of entrenched privilege , bore the brunt of ...
... already cheering every attack on the Connecticut lords spiritual , who clamped on every neck the iron enforcement of their puritan morality . Lyman Beecher himself , now the recognized leader of entrenched privilege , bore the brunt of ...
Page 295
... already advertising " A BOOK FOR THE TIMES !, " entitled Life at The South ; or , Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is , by W. L. G. Smith , to be published by a Buffalo house . It was the first of a flood of books and pamphlets that attempted to ...
... already advertising " A BOOK FOR THE TIMES !, " entitled Life at The South ; or , Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is , by W. L. G. Smith , to be published by a Buffalo house . It was the first of a flood of books and pamphlets that attempted to ...
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