- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
-
Chapter One New England Beginnings: 1811–1816 -
Chapter Two Nutplains: 1811–1816 -
Chapter Three Litchfield: 1816–1824 -
Chapter Four The Hartford Female Seminary: 1824–1827 -
Chapter Five Year of Decision: 1827–1828 -
Chapter Six A Republic of Women: 1829–1832 -
Chapter Seven The West: 1832–1833 -
Chapter Eight Parlor Literature: 1833–1834 -
Chapter Nine Courtship and Marriage: 1834–1836 -
Chapter Ten Free Men and Free Speech: 1834–1837 -
Chapter Eleven Domestic Labor: 1836–1839 -
Chapter Twelve The Nursery and the Parlor: 1838–1841 -
Chapter Thirteen A Literary Woman: 1839–1843 -
Chapter Fourteen Signs of the Times: 1843 -
Chapter Fifteen In the Tide-Mud of the Real: 1844–1845 -
Chapter Sixteen The Water Cure: 1846–1848 -
Chapter Seventeen Crossing the River: 1849–1850 -
Chapter Eighteen A Rush of Mighty Wind: 1850–1851 -
Chapter Nineteen Cato's Daughter: 1851–1853 -
Chapter Twenty Antislavery Activist: 1853–1854 -
Chapter Twenty One Andover, Kansas, and Europe: 1854–1857 -
Chapter Twenty-two Her Father's and Her Mother's God: 1857–1859 -
Chapter Twenty-three The Atlantic and the Ship of State: 1859–1864 -
Chapter Twenty-Four Professional Writer: 1863–1867 -
Chapter Twenty-five Florida and Oldtown Folks: 1867–1869 -
Chapter Twenty-six Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs: 1869–1872 -
Chapter Twenty-Seven Valedictory: 1870–1896 - Primary Sources
- Index
Signs of the Times: 1843
Signs of the Times: 1843
- Chapter:
- (p.143) Chapter Fourteen Signs of the Times: 1843
- Source:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author(s):
Joan D. Hedrick
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The widely publicized predictions of William Miller increased the millennial expectation. It was, to take the title of a millennialist newspaper, one of the Signs of the Times. Miller's preaching fell on fertile soil and released energies that mushroomed out of control. For George Beecher, who veered between strenuous attempts at spiritual perfection and plunges into fits of depression, it was to prove too much to bear. The difficult path he trod was both example and warning to his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was drawn into the vortex of perfectionist striving. Miller's predictions were publicized widely in the Boston area while Harriet Beecher Stowe was in the East arranging for the publication of The Mayflower. Harriet had written letters of religious import before, but never one of such personal intensity. The pieces Harriet wrote for the New-York Evangelist during this period reveal her preoccupation with perfection and final judgment.
Keywords: William Miller, Signs of the Times, George Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, perfection, final judgment, predictions
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
-
Chapter One New England Beginnings: 1811–1816 -
Chapter Two Nutplains: 1811–1816 -
Chapter Three Litchfield: 1816–1824 -
Chapter Four The Hartford Female Seminary: 1824–1827 -
Chapter Five Year of Decision: 1827–1828 -
Chapter Six A Republic of Women: 1829–1832 -
Chapter Seven The West: 1832–1833 -
Chapter Eight Parlor Literature: 1833–1834 -
Chapter Nine Courtship and Marriage: 1834–1836 -
Chapter Ten Free Men and Free Speech: 1834–1837 -
Chapter Eleven Domestic Labor: 1836–1839 -
Chapter Twelve The Nursery and the Parlor: 1838–1841 -
Chapter Thirteen A Literary Woman: 1839–1843 -
Chapter Fourteen Signs of the Times: 1843 -
Chapter Fifteen In the Tide-Mud of the Real: 1844–1845 -
Chapter Sixteen The Water Cure: 1846–1848 -
Chapter Seventeen Crossing the River: 1849–1850 -
Chapter Eighteen A Rush of Mighty Wind: 1850–1851 -
Chapter Nineteen Cato's Daughter: 1851–1853 -
Chapter Twenty Antislavery Activist: 1853–1854 -
Chapter Twenty One Andover, Kansas, and Europe: 1854–1857 -
Chapter Twenty-two Her Father's and Her Mother's God: 1857–1859 -
Chapter Twenty-three The Atlantic and the Ship of State: 1859–1864 -
Chapter Twenty-Four Professional Writer: 1863–1867 -
Chapter Twenty-five Florida and Oldtown Folks: 1867–1869 -
Chapter Twenty-six Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs: 1869–1872 -
Chapter Twenty-Seven Valedictory: 1870–1896 - Primary Sources
- Index
