Catharine Esther Beecher (6 September 1800-12 May 1878), author and educator, used the printed word as a weapon to advance her principles. A doer and writer, she effectively elevated the status of women, although the scope of her feminism was narrow by...

Catharine Beecher was one of the first women in America to advocate the acceptance of women as public-school teachers. Through her many books, articles, and lectures, she promoted the position and education of women in the nineteenth century. She...

American author and educator Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) was responsible for creating a new social attitude that placed greater value on women's work in the home and their role as educators and moral guides for the young. Her book Treatise on...

From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 250, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper) A folklore journal is...

From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 250. $18.95.) For many historians, economy means something quite different today than what the...