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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)
Scott's works. It was an epoch in the family history when Doctor Beecher came down-stairs one day with a copy of Ivanhoe in his hand, and said: I have always said that my children should not read novels, but they must read these. The two years following the death of Professor Fisher were passed by Miss Catherine Beecher at Franklin, Mass., at the home of Professor Fisher's parents, where she taught his two sisters, studied mathematics with his brother Willard, and listened to Doctor Emmons' fearless and pitiless preaching. Hers was a mind too strong and buoyant to be crushed and prostrated by that which would have 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 resu
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
from Professor Stowe on spiritualism, 419; letter to H. B. S. from, 421; with sympathy on abuse called out by the Byron affair, 458; on effect of letter of H. B. S. to Mrs. Follen upon her mind, 460; on joy of sympathy, 460; reply to letter on spiritualism, 466; sympathy with her in the Beecher trial, 472. Elmes, Mr., 57. Elms, the old, H. B. S.'s seventieth birthday celebrated at, 500. Elsie Venner, Mrs. Stowe's praise of, 360, 362, 415. Emancipation, Proclamation of, 384. Emmons, Doctor, the preaching of, 25. England and America compared, 177. England, attitude of, in civil war, grief at, 369; help of to America on slave question, 166, 174. English women's address on slavery, 374; H. B. S.'s reply in the Atlantic monthly, 374. Europe, first visit to, 189; second visit to, 268; third visit to, 343. F. Faith in Christ, 513. Famine in Cincinnati, 100. Fiction, power of, 216. Fields, Mrs., Annie, in Boston, 470; her tribute to Mrs. Stowe's courage