The May Flower And Miscellaneous Writings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The May Flower And Miscellaneous Writings By Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet s literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom s Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer s disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom s Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION.
• THE MAY FLOWER.
• THE TEA ROSE.
• TRIALS OF A HOUSEKEEPER.
• LITTLE EDWARD.
• AUNT MARY.
• FRANKNESS.
• THE SABBATH.
• SKETCHES FROM A NOTE BOOK OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN.
• ANOTHER SCENE.
• SKETCH SECOND.
• SKETCH THIRD.
• LET EVERY MAN MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS.
• COUSIN WILLIAM.
• THE MINISTRATION OF OUR DEPARTED FRIENDS.
• MRS. A. AND MRS. B. - OR, WHAT SHE THINKS ABOUT IT.
• CHRISTMAS; OR, THE GOOD FAIRY.
• EARTHLY CARE A HEAVENLY DISCIPLINE.
• CONVERSATION ON CONVERSATION.
• HOW DO WE KNOW?
• WHICH IS THE LIBERAL MAN?
• THE ELDER'S FEAST.
• LITTLE FRED, THE CANAL BOY.
• PART I.
• PART II.
• THE CANAL BOAT.
• FEELING.
• THE SEAMSTRESS.
• OLD FATHER MORRIS.
• THE TWO ALTARS - OR TWO PICTURES IN ONE.
• A SCHOLAR'S ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY.
• "WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON!"
• ART AND NATURE.
• CHILDREN.
• HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH MAMMON.
• A SCENE IN JERUSALEM.
• THE OLD MEETING HOUSE.
• SKETCH FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF AN OLD GENTLEMAN.
• THE NEW-YEAR'S GIFT.
• THE OLD OAK OF ANDOVER - A REVERY.
• OUR WOOD LOT IN WINTER.
• POEMS.
• MARY AT THE CROSS.
• CHRISTIAN PEACE.
• ABIDE IN ME AND I IN YOU.
• WHEN I AWAKE I AM STILL WITH THEE.