Synopses & Reviews
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own wayCatherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocatedevoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.
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The introductory essays for each section do draw upon the latest scholarship and enhance the usefulness of the book .
Choice
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A fascinating account of the three Beecher sisters, participants in the debate concerning women's rights.
Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Mary Kelley, John Sloan Dickey Professor of History at Dartmouth College, is author of Private Woman, Public State: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America.