The Nation, May 16th, 1994
By Joan D. Hedrick. Oxford University. 507 pp. $35.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's life spanned the nineteenth century (1811-1896), and her curiosity, career and enormous family kept her in touch with most of the major and minor movements of her time, from abolitionism to hydrotherapy, feminism to spiritualism. Astonishingly, Joan Hedrick's perceptive and wideranging account is the first significant analysis of Stowe's life in fifty years. And her book is so essential to understanding the evolution of middle-class women and nineteenth-century culture that it is hard to imagine how we have managed ...
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