Stowe, Charles Edward, and Stowe, Lyman Beecher . The Girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Section

Section Lyman Beecher's Love of Music

Section "Team Work" in the Beecher Family

Section Dr. Beecher's Fishing Parties

Section The Minister's Study

Section Harriet Discovers Cotton Mather

Section Bunyan in the Smoke-house

Section Old Sermons and the "Arabian Nights"

Section Harriet's Fear of the Rats

Section The Seafaring Uncle

Section Lyman Beecher's Second Marriage

Section Mr. Beecher and Jonathan Edwards

Section Harriet's School Days

Section First Literary Honors

Section Wonders of the "Meeting-house"

Section Rigors of the Sabbath

Section Harriet's Conversion

Section "Spiritual Experience" and the Old New England Divines

Section Theological Struggles in the Beecher Family

Section Tragic Death of Catherine's Betrothed

Section Catherine's Religion Taught that His Soul was Lost with His Body

Section Bereaved Girl's Struggle with Pitiless Calvinism

Section Harriet's Desire for Love

Section Religious Doubts and Fears

Section Harriet Breaks with Calvinism