Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker

by Susan Campbell

Book Overview

First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture

Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the "Fabulous Beecher" family--one of America's most high-powered families of the nineteenth century. Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of America's most influential ministers, and sister...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081957340X
• ISBN13: 9780819573407
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up