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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life (Library of Religious Biography)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life (Library of Religious Biography)

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life, won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award for General Non-Fiction.

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.

Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy Koester's biography highlights Stoweâ€™s faith as central to her life -- both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God. Having meticulously researched Stoweâ€™s own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe's faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvinism through spiritualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative.

Watch a 2014 interview with the author of this book here:
Country USA
Brand Eerdmans
Manufacturer Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-01-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780802833044

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