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Title is a stretch, but Stowe's life fascinates

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20071125
Author:Rebecca Maughan

The advice about not judging a book by its cover is well-known. In the case of Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe, it's best not to judge by the title, either.

Historian Philip McFarland has written an engrossing biography of the woman who created an uproar in 1852 with her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Like any good biography, McFarland's book firmly plants Stowe's life in the context of her time. But he never fully makes a case for the title, which refers to Stowe's husband, father and brother Henry. Though she obviously loved them, one could easily add to the list others, such as her ...

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