Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 112
... writing , Catharine signed the geography as co - author and shared equally in the " avails . " It took the sanguine Beecher temperament to regard this success as a warrant for Harriet to quit salaried employment for the hazards of writing ...
... writing , Catharine signed the geography as co - author and shared equally in the " avails . " It took the sanguine Beecher temperament to regard this success as a warrant for Harriet to quit salaried employment for the hazards of writing ...
Page 513
... writing his one novel , Norwood , for serialization . In January , 1867 , Harriet visited in Brooklyn and at that time heard all about Henry's work for the Ledger . And it is likely that she met Bonner at that time . Not exactly all ...
... writing his one novel , Norwood , for serialization . In January , 1867 , Harriet visited in Brooklyn and at that time heard all about Henry's work for the Ledger . And it is likely that she met Bonner at that time . Not exactly all ...
Page 567
... writing and bad con- struction that marred some of her greater novels are little in evidence in My Wife and I. Its plot was trite , even in that day . The Rev. Mr. Alger was writing the same plot for boys . Harry Henderson is the poor ...
... writing and bad con- struction that marred some of her greater novels are little in evidence in My Wife and I. Its plot was trite , even in that day . The Rev. Mr. Alger was writing the same plot for boys . Harry Henderson is the poor ...
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