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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Lyman Beecher; Beecher family.; Beecher family.; Lyman Beecher; Beecher, Familie |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Agnew Schreiner |
ISBN: | 0471414840 9780471414841 |
OCLC Number: | 51095515 |
Description: | ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prelude: "Thanks to God, we's free" 1 -- 1 "The Chariot of Christ" 9 -- 2 "Up for the war" 22 -- 3 "No child prepared to die" 38 -- 4 "Beloved and affectionate children" 58 -- 5 "Oh, good Lord! Can we go through this?" 73 -- 6 "I will write something. I will if I live" 114 -- 7 "After all, what is a novel?" 149 -- 8 "This war is killing me" 189 -- 9 "Wait--wait--singing songs in the night" 232 -- 10 "I will not lie there" 295 -- 11 "In the flickering light of the dying embers" 335. |
Responsibility: | Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr. |
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Abstract:
This biography of the historically prominent Beecher family, the celebrity clan of 19th-century America, focuses on the astonishing lives of patriarch Lyman Beecher's 11 offspring, of whom the most celebrated were Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
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"...fascinating family saga." (Church Times, 16 May 2004) "...poignantly captures the highs and lows of a family often in the public eye." (Library Journal, September 15, 2003)
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