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Author	White, Barbara Anne.
Title	The Beecher sisters / Barbara A. White.
Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 1	920 B4144 W	IN LIBRARY

Description	xiii, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-378) and index.
Contents	Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. Satan," 1871-1872 -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal, 1872-1875 -- Spiritualism, 1875-1878 -- Losses, 1878-1887 -- The board of lady managers, 1888-1893.
Subject	Beecher family.
	Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878.
	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
	Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907.
	Perkins, Mary Beecher, 1805-1900.
	Sisters -- United States -- Biography.
	Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
	Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN	0300099274 (cloth : alk. paper)

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