
Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Biography for Girls
By Martha Foote CrowLength7h 51m
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Excerpt: "In a little saucer-like valley of the lower Berkshires, where the hills stand about in a wide circle, lies that most beautiful of Connecticut villages, Litchfield. Here Harriet Beecher Stowe was born. There was not a day when she and her brothers and sisters did not run to the window to see that blue rim of hills, and even when they were grown into women and men they did not forget the charm of their early home in the mountains. From the door of the house where they lived there was an extended view. Here Harriet often stood and looked over to the distant horizon, where Mt. Tom reared its round, blue head against the sky, and the Great and Little Ponds gleamed out amid a steel-blue expanse of distant pine groves. Turning to the west, she saw a rounded height called Prospect Hill, and many a pensive, wondering hour she sat on the stone threshold of that doorway, watching the splendor of the sunsets that burned themselves out beyond that hill. Harriet often said that her home was at the precise point of the country where the hills were most inspiring and vivacious, reminding one of the Psalm, "The little hills rejoice on every side." Mountains are grand, she thought, and sometimes even dreary; but these half-grown hills uplift one like the waves of the sea."
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
13CHAPTER XII THE SEMI-COLONS
2CHAPTER I THE EARLY HOME OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
14CHAPTER XIII MRS. STOWE THE HOME-MAKER
3CHAPTER II WORK AND PLAY IN THE BEECHER PARSONAGE
15CHAPTER XIV UNCONSCIOUS PREPARATION FOR A WORK
4CHAPTER III HARRIET BEECHER’S SCHOOLING
16CHAPTER XV THE GREAT INSPIRATION
5CHAPTER IV EDUCATION IN THE HOME
17CHAPTER XVI “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” AND ITS INFLUENCE
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6CHAPTER V THE BOOKS SHE READ
18CHAPTER XVII WANDERING IN FOREIGN LANDS
7CHAPTER VI DRAMATIC VENTURES
19CHAPTER XVIII A UNIQUE JUBILEE
8CHAPTER VII STUDIES AND TEACHERS
20CHAPTER XIX A VISIT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN
9CHAPTER VIII SOME STEPS FORWARD
21CHAPTER XX WRITING STORIES OF OLD NEW ENGLAND LIFE
10CHAPTER IX A PILGRIMAGE
22CHAPTER XXI A SERENE OLD AGE
11CHAPTER X THE WESTERN HOME
23FOOTNOTES:
12CHAPTER XI THE FOUNDERS OF A SCHOOL