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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 2: school days in Hartford, 1824-1832. (search)
e driven a weaker and less resolute nature into insanity. Of her it may well be said:-- She faced the spectres of the mind And laid them, thus she came at length To find a stronger faith her own. Gifted naturally with a capacity for close metaphysical analysis and a robust fearlessness in following her premises to a logical conclusion, she arrived at results startling and original, if not always of permanent value. In 1840 she published in the Biblical Repository an article on Free Agency, which has been acknowledged by competent critics as the ablest refutation of Edwards on The will which has appeared. An amusing incident connected with this publication may not be out of place here. A certain eminent theological professor of New England, visiting a distinguished German theologian and speaking of this production, said: The ablest refutation of Edwards on The Will which was ever written is the work of a woman, the daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher. The worthy Teuton raised
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
of her own birth, 23; strong influence over Harriet, 22; girlhood of, 23; teacher at New London, 23; engagement, 23; drowning of her lover, 23; soul struggles after Prof. Fisher's death, 25, 26; teaches in his family, 25; publishes article on Free Agency, 26; opens school at Hartford, 27; solution of doubts while teaching, 28, 29; her conception of Divine Nature, 28; school at Hartford described by H. B. S., 29; doubts about Harriet's conversion, 35; hopes for Hartford female Seminary, 37; letf H. B. S., first visit to, 5-7; visit to in 1827, 38. Footfalls on the Boundary of another world, 464. Footsteps of the master, published, 491. Fraser's magazine on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 168; Helps's review of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 175. Free Agency, Catherine Beecher's refutation of Edwards on The will, 26. French critics, high standing of, 291. Friends, love for, 51; death of, 410; death of old, whose letters are cherished, 508; death of, takes away a part of ourselves, 485. Fr