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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 20: George Eliot. (search)
e often takes too much for granted. Still, with every abatement there remains a residuum of fact, which I think both curious and useful. In a late letter to me he says:-- There is no writer of the present day whom I more esteem than Mrs. Lewes, nor any one whose opinion of my work I should more highly value. I believe he intends sending them to you, and I hope you will read them. Lest some of the narratives should strike you, as such narratives did me once, as being a perfect Arabian Nights' Entertainment, I want to say that I have accidentally been in the way of confirming some of the most remarkable by personal observation. . . . In regard to all this class of subjects, I am of the opinion of Goethe, that it is just as absurd to deny the facts of spiritualism now as it was in the Middle Ages to ascribe them to the Devil. I think Mr.. Owen attributes too much value to his facts. I do not think the things contributed from the ultra-mundane sphere are particularly valuable
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
r, savage attack of, on H. B. S., 187. Albert, Prince, Mrs. Stowe's letter to, 160; his reply, 164, meeting with, 271, death, 368. America, liberty in, 193; Ruskin on, 354. American novelist, Lowell on the, 330. Andover, Mass., beauty of, 186; Stowe family settled in, 188. Anti-slavery cause: result of English demonstrations, 252; letters to England, 160; feeling dreaded in South, 172; movement in Cincinnati, 81; in Boston, 145; Beecher family all anti-slavery men, 152. Arabian Nights, H. B. S.'s delight in, 9. Argyll, Duke and Duchess of 229, 232; warmth of, 239; H. B. S. invited to visit, 270, 271; death of father of Duchess, 368. Argyll, Duchess of, letter from H. B. S. to, on England's attitude during our Civil War, 368; on post bellum events, 395. Atlantic monthly, contains Minister's Wooing, 327; Mrs. Stowe's address to women of England, 375; The true story of Lady Byron's life, 447, 453. B. Bailey, Gamaliel, Dr., editor of National era, 157.