Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
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The key signature notation in the music on page 64 was corrected inthe audio file. The notation should be F#, not E#.
A typo in the music notation on page 251 was corrected inthe audio file. Beams bewteen bass notes A & F (beat 1) in bars 17 & 18 aremissing in the original.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
A BIOGRAPHY FOR GIRLS
BY
MARTHA FOOTE CROW
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
TO
E. L. F.
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PREFACE
Thanks are very heartily due to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company,the publishers of the works of Mrs. Stowe, for their kind permissionto quote freely from her books, and from the biographies of Mrs.Stowe written by her son, Rev. Charles E. Stowe, and by her grandson,Mr. Lyman Beecher Stowe. The same publishers have given permissionto make an abstract of “Cleon,” the play by Harriet Beecher, whichis found in the “Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe” by AnnieFields, of which they are the publishers. Messrs. Harper and Brothershave also been good enough to allow quotation from the “Autobiographyand Correspondence of Lyman Beecher.” To Miss E. N. Vanderpoel, thecompiler of “Chronicles of a Pioneer School,” the author wishes toacknowledge her indebtedness for some interesting passages.
The author has also greatly appreciated the permission given by Mr.John R. Howard to quote a short passage about childhood experiences inthe Beecher home found in his valuable sketch of the Rev. Henry WardBeecher.
To Mr. Charles E. Stowe, the author hereby makes[Pg viii] gratefulacknowledgment for much helpful advice, and for material not hithertopublished. From many friends in Litchfield, Guilford, Hartford andelsewhere, the writer of this book has received invaluable help andwould be glad to acknowledge each one’s contribution if there werespace to do so. The frontispiece is made from an old carte devisite kindly lent by Mrs. Hannah C. Partridge, of Hartford,Connec