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Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20080401
Author:Loving, Jerome
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Philip McFarland. Grove Press, November 2007. $26
Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln famously declared, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!" But McFarland's eloquent narrative chronicles not only her writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin but also her subsequent books, setting the composition of each firmly in time and place. It also discusses in colorful detail her accusing Byron of incest in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869 and the subsequent damage to her literary reputation, as well as the ...
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