EPISODE · Feb 28, 2020 · 45 MIN
Harriet Beecher Stowe – The Semi-Colon Club
from That's What She Said (About the Bible) · host wycliffecollege
Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in 1811, is the author of the internationally acclaimed, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's interpretation of the Bible brings together the distinctive male world of the academy and church that she accessed through her father and later her husband and the distinctive women's culture of nineteenth-century America. Harriet was one of the most popular writers of her time. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln called her "the little woman" whose book started the Civil War. --Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters by Marion Ann Taylor--
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in 1811, is the author of the internationally acclaimed, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's interpretation of the Bible brings together the distinctive male world of the academy and church that she accessed through her father and later her husband and the distinctive women's culture of nineteenth-century America. Harriet was one of the most popular writers of her time. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln called her "the little woman" whose book started the Civil War. --Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters by Marion Ann Taylor--
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