Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography for girls

by Martha Foote Crow

• 1833. A Primary Geography.
• 1843. The Mayflower.
• 1852. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
• 1853. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
• 1853. A Peep Into Uncle Tom’s Cabin (for children).
• 1854. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, [2] Vols.
• 1855. The Christian Slave. Dramatization of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
• 1855. A Geography for My Children. Published in London.
• 1856. Dred, a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.
• 1858. Our Charley and What to Do With Him.
• 1859. Golden Fruit in Silver Baskets. Selection from her works, published in England.
• 1859. The Minister’s Wooing.
• 1862. The Pearl of Orr’s Island, a Story of the Coast of Maine.
• 1862. Agnes of Sorrento.
• 1863. Reply on Behalf of the Women of America to the Christian Address of Many Thousand Women of Great Britain.
• 1864. House and Home Papers.
• 1865. Little Foxes.
• 1866. Nina Gordon (formerly Dred).
• 1867. Queer Little People.
• 1867. Daisy’s First Winter and Other Stories.
• 1868. The Chimney Corner.
• 1868. Men of Our Times.
• 1869. Oldtown Folks.
• 1869. The American Woman’s Home (with Catherine Beecher).
• 1870. Little Pussy Willow.
• 1870. Lady Byron Vindicated.
• 1871. The History of the Byron Controversy.
• 1871. Pink and White Tyranny.
• 1871. Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories.
• 1872. My Wife and I.
• 1873. Palmetto Leaves.
• 1873. Library of Famous Fiction.
• 1875. We and Our Neighbors.
• 1876. Betty’s Bright Idea and Other Tales.
• 1876. Footsteps of the Master.
• 1878. Bible Heroines.
• 1878. Poganuc People.
• 1881. A Dog’s Mission.

INDEX

• “Address” to Women of America, [230], [259], [266], [271], [272].
• Allen, Mrs., see Stowe, Georgiana May.
• Anti-Slavery Society of Glasgow, [299].
• “Arabian Nights,” [74], [169].
• Baxter’s “Saints’ Rest,” [110].
• Beecher family, [ix-xii], [11], [153], [226], [298].
• Beecher, Catherine, [12], [22], [96-109], [146-152], et seq.
• Beecher, Charles, [18], [27], [124], [136], [201], [226], [296].
• Beecher, David, [11].
• Beecher, Dr. Edward, [8], [18], [19], [117], [124], [296], [300].
• Beecher, Mrs. Edward, [212].
• Beecher, Esther, [12], [28], [34], [79], [102-103], [126], [128], [143], [144], [189].
• Beecher, George, [18], [128], [130], [226].
• Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth, see Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
• Beecher, Harriet Porter, [126], [128], [143], [144], [226].
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [18], [19], [27], [33], [34], [35], [37], [60], [102], [117], [124], [167], [198], [206], [212], [226], [296], [298].
• Beecher, Isabella (Mrs. Hooker), [18], [128], [296].
• Beecher, James, [18], [128].
• Beecher, Dr. Lyman, [1], [3], [5], [14], [17], [25], [28], [30], [39], [42-43], [48], [63], [66], [71], [73-74], [78], [80], [81], [98], [100], [111], [113], [115], [117], [123], [126], [131], [155], [192], [278], [298].
• Beecher, Mary (Mrs. Perkins), [18], [124], [130].
• Beecher, Roxana Foote, [7], [44], [52], [54], [56], [57-62], [70], [77], [96], [107], [151], [175], [298].
• Beecher, Thomas K., [18], [128].
• Beecher, William Henry, [18], [19], [124].
• Bible, [10], [14], [17], [73], [75], [81], [82], [87], [103], [295].
• Biblical Repository, [98].
• Border State Policy, Lincoln’s, [268].
• Bowling Green, N. Y., [4].
• Brace, J. B., [48].
• Bracelet, shackle, [230].
• Bright, John, [273].
• Browning, E. B., [62], [79], [240], [241], [261], [279].
• Bunyan’s Pilgrim, [72].
• Butler’s “Analogy,” [95], [110], [160].
• Byron, [78], [79], [115], [169], [306].
• Carpet, the painted, [58].
• Chase, S. P., [159], [262].
• Christian Observer, [70], [77].
• Cincinnati, [122], [133-143], [146-152], [186], [197], [200], [202].
• Civil War, [193], [242-273].
• Claflin, Hon. and Mrs., [296].
• “Cleon” (unfinished drama), [vii], [90], [115].
• Colonization Society, [199].
• “Columbian Orator,” [38].
• Cutler, George Younglove, [86].
• Dame School, [18], [32], [34], [36-37], [298].
• Dickens, [131], [135], [137], [215].
• “Don Quixote,” [74], [169].
• Easthampton, [25], [58], [194].
• Edgeworth’s, Miss, “Frank,” [77].
• Edwards, J., [75], [98].
• Eliot, George, [236], [241], [278].
• Emancipation Proclamation, [255-271].
• Emerson, [216], [296].
• Emma Willard School, [40], [151], [152].
• England, relations of U. S. with, [157], [260], [261], [271], [273].
• Fisher, A. M., [99].
• Fields, Mrs., [vii], [236], [299].
• Foote, Rev. John, [55].
• Foote, J. P., [133].
• Foote, Lucinda (Mrs. Cornwall), [54], [151].
• Foote, Roxana, see Beecher, Roxana Foote.
• Foote, Samuel E., [68], [77], [121], [133], [158], [162].
• Garrison, [211], [216].
• Gladstone, [279].
• “Go down, Moses,” [250-251], [272].
• Guilford, Conn., [viii], [2], [12], [37], [54], [68-69], [117], [124], [130], [134], [195], [290].
• Harrison, Gen., [139-140].
• Helps, Sir Arthur, [274].
• Holmes, Dr., [219], [271], [296].
• Houghton, Mifflin Co., [vii], [296].
• Howe, J. W., [217].
• Howells, W. D., [221].
• Hubbard, Mrs. Mary, [69], [192].
• Irving, W., [69].
• “Jephtha’s Daughter,” [84-86].
• Jesus Christ, [119], [289], [297], [306].
• “John the Baptist, Old,” freedman, [254].
• Kilbourne, Ma’am, see Dame School.
• Kingsley, Charles, [215], [236].
• Lane Theological Seminary, [124], [143], [171], [199].
• Lawson, Sam, [173], [282-293].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [46], [159], [244], [258-273]
• Litchfield, Conn., [1-6], [20], [69], [70], [85], [124], [133], [164], [192], [195], [276].
• Litchfield Female Academy, [40-43], [45], [62], [84].
• Macaulay, [70], [215], [236].
• “Magnolia,” [278].
• Martineau, H., [135], [137], [138].
• May, Georgiana, [104], et seq.
• Milton, [75], [81].
• Mt. Holyoke Seminary, [40].
• National Era, The, [215].
• New England life, [1-8], [25], [39], [274-293], [275].
• Novels, [80], [115].
• Ohio, [106].
• Ohio River, [127], [132], [176].
• Partridge, Mrs. H. C., [viii].
• Pierce, Miss Sally, [40], [76].
• Phelps, E. S., [296], [299].
• Plays in Litchfield, [84-87].
• Plutarch’s Lives, [88].
• Primer, New England, [35].
• “Queen Esther,” [87].
• “Reply” to English “Address,” [260], [266], [271], [272].
• “Robinson Crusoe,” [75].
• Ruskin, [236].
• “Ruth,” [87].
• Sabbath in New England, [5], [19], [60], [276].
• Sand, George, [217], [218], [221].
• San Domingo, [56], [192].
• Scott, [76-78], [80], [84], [169], [220].
• Semi-colon Club, [158], [159].
• Shaftesbury, Earl of, [215].
• Shakespeare, [75], [83], [292].
• “Sir Charles Grandison,” [75].
• Slavery, [188-222], [255].
• Spiritualism, [241].
• Stiles, President Ezra, [55], [280].
• Stowe, Rev. C. E., [vii], [47], [118], [173], [211], [222], [248], [262], [296].
• Stowe, Eliza Taylor, [173].
• Stowe, Frederick William, [173], [247], [256], [258], [271], [294].
• Stowe, Georgiana May (Mrs. Allen), [173], [293], [296], [299].
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, portraits of, [viii], [225-227], [257];
• chronological outline of life of, [xi-xii];
• early home of, [1-31];
• character of, [4], [8], [38], [72], [102], [104], [115], [120], [121], [134], [177], [188], [225], [227], [232], [236], [268], [303];
• family of, [7], [18], [21], [72];
• religious influences of, [17], [18], [110-121], [301], [302];
• education of, [32-109];
• in Cincinnati, see Cincinnati;
• literary life of, [161-184];
• literary art of, [162], [169], [220], [264], [275], [281];
• as a homemaker, [171-184];
• in Brunswick, [172], [175], [211], see also “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and Slavery;
• travels of, [223-243];
• at Andover, [241];
• services of, [273], [274], [278], [297];
• at Hartford, [294-300];
• in Florida, [294], [300];
• public honors tendered to, [295];
• serene old age of, [294-304];
• works of, [70-82], [305-306].
• Stowe, Harriet B., [173], [248], [262].
• Stowe, Henry Ellis, [173], [246], [257], [270].
• Stowe, Lyman Beecher, [vii].
• Stowe, Samuel Charles, [173], [187], [270].
• Suffrage, Woman’s, [300].
• Sun-dial inscription, [121].
• Tarbell, Ida, [150].
• Thanksgiving, [30], [143], [244-246].
• “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” [188-214], [222], [264], [269], [274], [278], [296-298];
• influence of, [216-219], [256].
• Underground railway, [197].
• Vanderpoel, Miss E. N., [40], [63], [85].
• Vanzandt, [206].
• Victoria, Queen, [228].
• Villard, Mrs. Henry, [216].
• Washington in 1862, [243-244], [265].
• Weld, Theodore, [199].
• Wellesley College, [303].
• Wesley, J., [233].
• West, the, in 1832, [123].
• Western Monthly Magazine, [159], [163], [170].
• Whittier, [217], [219], [280], [296].
• Woman suffrage, [300].
• Women, New England, [150], [151].
• Women of U. S., [237].
• Woodspell, [25-29].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. I, pp. 464-474.

[2] From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. I, pp. 85-86.

[3] See the productions of the wonderful lace and embroideries done by pupils of the Litchfield Female Academy in “Chronicles of a Pioneer School,” by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, 1903.

[4] By Miss E. N. Vanderpoel, in her charming book, “Chronicles of a Pioneer School.”

[5] Any one that would like to know more about this Aunt Esther, may well read the essay of Mrs. Stowe’s called “The Cathedral.” It is found in her book entitled “The Chimney Corner.” If Harriet could build a cathedral to suit herself she would have a place therein for “Saint” Esther.

[6] From Lyman Beecher’s “Autobiography,” 1866, Vol. II, p. 224.