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The Beechers' Uncivil War

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080104
Author:Carolyn See

HARRIET AND ISABELLA

By Patricia O'Brien

Touchstone. 304 pp. $25

It's hard to get a bead on what people remember about our collective American past. Yes, we probably remember that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an immensely popular novel denouncing the evils of American slavery in 1852, and that a decade later, President Lincoln would greet her as the "little woman who started this big war." And -- on a good day -- we remember the war's dates: 1861-1865. But this novel is set much later, in 1887, and focuses on another member of the Beecher family, Henry Ward Beecher, ...

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