Abe Lincoln is a character in "Norwood", the only novel by her brother Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher - NNDB.com  He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of ... He studied men rather than books; became acquainted with the vices in what was ... within five minutes walk of the chief ferry to New York, the stalwart character of ... William Henry Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Abraham Lincoln, that slavery...
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) - Genealogy - Geni  Aug 10, 2015 ... Genealogy for Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) family tree on ... (Reverend) Henry Ward Beecher in The Salt Lake Herald - Mar 12 1887 .... His early environment was such as to foster independence and sturdiness of character. .... Abraham Lincoln (who said of Beecher that no one in history had "so...
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Henry Ward Beecher - Wikipedia  Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813  March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist ... Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and ... He soon acquired fame on the lecture circuit for his novel oratorical style, .... In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sent Beecher on a...
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Norwood by Pat Pflieger, Henry Ward Beecher | | NOOK Book ...  Jan 30, 2016 ... Abraham Lincoln makes a cameo appearance; the Battle of Gettysburg ... North and South collide in the only novel written by celebrity minister Henry Ward Beecher (brother of ... the Battle of Gettysburg is a turning point for Beecher's characters. ... Pat Pflieger received her PhD in American Studies from the...
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Norwood, by Henry Ward Beecher: about the book - merrycoz.org  ... it was due mostly to Beecher himself, a charismatic and divisive minister and brother of ... Henry Ward Beecher (NY: Augustin Daly, 1867) is a descriptive title; Daly ... Abraham Lincoln has a cameo; Beecher describes his broad country accent, ... As one character's lover lies unconscious, Beecher whisks her off on a long...
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Agnes Grey by Anne Bront  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  Tatiana said: Out of all Bronte books Agnes Grey is definitely the one that reads as ... At age 19 Anne Bront left home and worked as a governess for a few years ..... of manners and upmarket romance novels and found in the Bronts a vicarious .... end of her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights, this quiet novel by Anne Bront...
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'Abe Lincoln in Illinois' review by Rick Burin  Letterboxd  Aug 21, 2016 ... Abe Lincoln in Illinois does quite the opposite: heavier, more incisive, ... Then tragedy intervenes, Gordon's Mary Todd appears, and darkness takes hold of Lincoln, ... his happiness, and Gordon plays those contrasting facets to perfection. ... in Harold and Maude and a possible Satanist in Rosemary's Baby.
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President (16th) Abraham (Honest Abe ) Lincoln - Bush/Bell Family ...  ... The Grand Wrestler, The Great Emancipator, The Illinois Baboon, The Jester, Long 'Un, Man of the People, The Martyr President, The Railsplitter, The Sage of...
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Henry Ward Beecher - Wikipedia  Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813  March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial.
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Excerpts from The Autobiographies of Abraham Lincoln  Lincoln wrote this second autobiography (out of a total of three) for Jesse Fell, a long-time ... His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, ..... Among those he read were Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, Aesop's Fables, William Grimshaw's History of the United States, and Mason Weems' Life of...
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Amazon.com: Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which ... Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United .... It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and .... Mary Lincoln was a burden to the President and her nervous breakdown...
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Henry Ward Beecher - NNDB.com  American preacher and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 24th of ... He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. ... The membership numbered nineteen women and one man. ... in 1885, when many of the ministry were denouncing evolution as atheistic.
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Charlotte Bronte, Sisters and Wuthering Heights - Pinterest  Emily's only novel "Wuthering Heights" is a favorite of mine. ... women writers, bronte family, charlotte bronte, jane eyre, bront sisters, bronte jane, ... She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell." ..... Portrait of Emily Bront by her brother Branwell Bront Emily Jane Bront (play /brnti/;[1][2] 30 July 1818  19...
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Catharine Beecher - Education & Resources - National Women's ...  Catherine's other famous siblings included Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffrage leader and Henry Ward Beecher, a Brooklyn pastor, whose lectures against...
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Amazon.com: I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War ...  Editorial Reviews. From Booklist. Charyn faces the daunting task of fictionalizing the life of an ... his own family faces their own monumental struggles under the national microscope, the ... I Am Abraham is not only the best novel about President Lincoln since Gore Vidal's Lincoln in 1984, but it is also twice as good to read.
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Sister Carrie  Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who ... 18 year-old Caroline Meeber heads for Chicago, Illinois, where she wants to live with her ... One night, at his job, Hurstwood is presented with the opportunity to ... to his former life so the couple eventually decide to move to the East Coast.
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Lincoln (novel) - Wikipedia  Lincoln: A Novel is a historical novel, part of the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal. Set during the American Civil War, the novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures, including presidential secretary John Hay, ... Genre, Historical novel. Publisher, Random House. Publication date. 1984.
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'Wuthering Heights': The Roots of Romanticism - BreakPoint  Apr 4, 2014 ... Even the novelist's own sister, Charlotte (author of Jane Eyre), was ... Her love for him lasts into adulthood, even as her brother, Hindley, ... some of the elements of that romanticism in Wuthering Heights: ... Though we know Heathcliff has been horribly treated by Hindley and othersboth the book and...
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Abraham Lincoln's Beard  ... Young Abraham Almost Drowned  Ann Rutledge - Abraham Lincoln's First ... Mr. Lincoln, a lifelong beardless man, received a letter written by Grace ... I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very ... In 2007 researcher Karen Needles found a second Grace Bedell letter to...
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The Quotable Rhett Butler: Mrs. Bixby and Her Sons - How We Do ...  Jul 20, 2010 ... First of all, the allusion to the Bixby letter. Lydia Bixby was a widow from Boston who had allegedly lost her five sons in the Civil War (it will turn out three of .... The last thing I have a hard time believing since I picture him reading .... related to Margaret Mitchell's timeless novel and the classic movie it inspired.
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H.W.#4 - Angelfire  Harriet Beecher Stowe - (1811-1896), American writer and abolitionist, author of Uncle ... Stowe was the daughter of the liberal clergyman Lyman Beecher.