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Household Papers and Stories

Household Papers and Stories

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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ISBN10: 1976500664
ISBN13: 9781976500664
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 20 2017
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.66 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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...

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