Household Papers and Stories

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Mrs. Stowe had early and very practical acquaintance with the art of housekeeping. It strikes one at first as a little incongruous that an author who devoted her great powers to stirring the conscience of a nation should from time to time, and at one period especially, give her mind to the ordering of family life, but a moment's consideration will show that the same woman was earnestly at the bottom of each effort. In a letter to the late Lord Denman, written in 1853, Mrs. Stowe, speaking of Uncle Tom's Cabin, said: "I wrote what I did because, as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and heartbroken with the sorrows and injustice which I saw, and because, as a Christian, I felt the dishonor to Christianity." Not under the stress of passionate emotion, yet largely from a sense of real responsibility as a woman, a mother, and a Christian, she occupied herself with those concerns of every day life which so distinctly appeal to a woman's mind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1676359710
• ISBN13: 9781676359715
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"