Household Papers and Stories - 9781984376787
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Mrs. Stowe had early and very practical acquaintance with the art of housekeeping. It strikes one at first as a little incongruous that an author who devoted her great powers to stirring the conscience of a nation should from time to time, and at one period especially, give her mind to the ordering of family life, but a moment's consideration will show that the same woman was earnestly at the bottom of each effort. In a letter to the late Lord Denman, written in 1853, Mrs. Stowe, speaking of Uncle Tom's Cabin , said: "I wrote what I did because, as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and heartbroken with the sorrows and injustice which I saw, and because, as a Christian, I felt the dishonor to Christianity." Not under the stress of passionate emotion, yet largely from a sense of real responsibility as a woman, a mother, and a Christian, she occupied herself with those concerns of every day life which so distinctly appeal to a woman's mind...
- | Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 402 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1984376780
- | ISBN-13: 9781984376787
- Author:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Feb 09, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 402 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1984376780
- ISBN-13:
- 9781984376787