CRUSADER IN CRINOLINE

by Forrest Wilson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 5, 1941

Biography of Harriet Beacher Stowe, in which the interest lies, for this reader at least, in the picture of the times, rather than in the story of a life that was in itself not particularly dramatic. Today, the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe meana Uncle Tom's Cabin. Forrest Wilson makes it mean other things -- not only a long list of books (of which perhaps two or three are still worth reading), but the contribution made by Mrs. Stowe to the position of women in intellectual life, in economic and political life. Though slow in taking up the cudgels for the cause her book brought into the limelight, once launched she went far. The family background, with implications of what that family has contributed to our national life; New England and Ohio of tho days: travel and what it involved; or held up to the times. The book lacks the sparkle of Jane Yelsh Carlyle, but will appeal to that market.

Pub Date: March 5, 1941

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1941

Categories: NONFICTION