Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life

by Nancy Koester

Book Overview

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.

Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802833047
• ISBN13: 9780802833044
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"