[527] mother's death, 2; incident of the tulip bulbs and mother's gentleness, 2; first journey a visit to her grandmother, 5; study of catechisms under her grandmother and aunt, 6; early religious and Biblical reading, 8; first school at the age of five, 8; hunger after mental food, 9; joyful discovery of The Arabian Nights, in the bottom of a barrel of dull sermons, 9; reminiscences of reading in father's library, 10; impression made by the Declaration of Independence, 11; appearance and character of her stepmother, 11, 12; healthy, happy child-life, 13; birth of her half-sister Isabella and H. B. S.'s care of infant, 14; early love of writing, 14; her essay selected for reading at school exhibitions, 14; her father's pride in essay, 15; subject of essay, arguments for belief in the Immortality of the Soul, 15-21; end of child-life in Litchfield, 21; goes to sister Catherine's school at Hartford, 29; describes Catherine Beecher's school in letter to son, 29; her home with the Bulls, 30, 31; school friends, 31, 32; takes up Latin, her study of Ovid and Virgil, 32; dreams of being a poet and writes “Cleon,” a drama, 32; her conversion, 33, 34; doubts of relatives and friends, 34, 35; connects herself with First Church, Hartford, 36; her struggle with rigid theology, 36; her melancholy and doubts, 37, 38; necessity of cheerful society, 38; visit to grandmother, 38; return to Hartford, 41; interest in painting lessons, 41; confides her religious doubts to her brother Edward, 42; school life in Hartford, 46; peace at last, 49; accompanies her father and family to Cincinnati, 53; describes her journey, 56; yearnings for New England home, 60; ill-health and depression, 64; her life in Cincinnati and teaching at new school established by her sister Catherine and herself, 65; wins prize for short story, 68; joins “Semicolon Club,” 68; slavery first brought to her personal notice, 71; attends Henry Ward Beecher's graduation, 73; engagement, 76; marriage, 76; anti-slavery agitation, 82; sympathy with Birney, editor of anti-slavery paper in Cincinnati, 84; birth of twin daughters, 88; of her third child, 89; reunion of the Beecher family, 89; housekeeping versus literary work, 93; birth of second son, 101; visits Hartford, 102; literary work encouraged, 102, 105; sickness in Lane Seminary, 107; death of brother George, 108; birth of third daughter, 108; protracted illness and poverty, 110; seminary struggles, 110; goes to water cure, 113; returns home, 118; birth of sixth child, 118; bravery in cholera epidemic, 120; death of youngest child Charles, 123; leaves Cincinnati, 125; removal to Brunswick, 126; getting settled, 134; husband arrives, 138; birth of seventh child, 139; anti-slavery feeling aroused by letters from Boston, 145; Uncle Tom's Cabin, first thought of, 145; writings for papers, 147; Uncle Tom's Cabin appears as a serial, 156; in book form, 159; its wonderful success, 160; praise from Longfellow, Whittier, Garrison, Higginson, 161; letters from English nobility, 164, et seq.; writes “Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin,” 174, 188; visits Henry Ward in Brooklyn, 178; raises money to free Edmondson family, 181; home-making at Andover, 186; first trip to Europe, 189, 205; wonderful success of Uncle Tom's Cabin abroad, 189; her warm reception at Liverpool,
