 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - United States - 1896 - 750 pages
...husband she confides some of her literary plans and aspirations to him, and he answers : — " My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...fate. Make all your calculations accordingly. Get up a good stock of health, and brush up your mind. Drop the E out of your name. It only encumbers it... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...husband she confides some of her literary plans and aspirations to him, and he answers : — " My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...fate. Make all your calculations accordingly. Get up a good stock of health, and brush up your mind. Drop the E out of your name. It only encumbers it... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Authors, American - 1897 - 428 pages
...previous letter some of her literary plans and aspirations ; Professor Stowe replies : — "My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...calculations accordingly. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind. Drop the E. out of your name. It only incumbers it and interferes with the... | |
 | John Erskine - Novelists, American - 1910 - 424 pages
...her as their prophetess with the gift of written speech. In 1842 her husband wrote to her: "My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...calculations accordingly. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind. Drop the E. out of your name. It only encumbers it and interferes with the... | |
 | Charles Edward Stowe, Lyman Beecher Stowe - Authors, American - 1911 - 380 pages
...him some of her cherished literary schemes. To this letter he replies with enthusiasm : " My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...calculations accordingly. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind. Drop the E out of your name. It only encumbers it, and interferes with the... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - Women - 1915 - 308 pages
...realize and enter upon her divine inheritance. He writes: "My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is written in the book of fate. Make all your calculations accordingly. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind. Drop the ' E' out of your name. Write yourself fully and always ' Harriet Beecher... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 534 pages
...of Anne Bradstreet an occasional woman has succeeded. In 1842 her husband wrote to her : " My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in the book of fate. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind." In the next year her first volume, a book of selected... | |
 | Jeanne Boydston - History - 1988 - 400 pages
...Beecher, Lyman's sister, joined the household, serving as Harriet's substitute during her absence. You must be a literary woman. It is so written in...and always, Harriet Beecher Stowe, which is a name euphonious, flowing, and full of meaning; and my word for it, your husband will lift up his head in... | |
 | Barbara A. White - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 413 pages
...he wrote. It was fated to be so. She should make all her plans accordingly, improve her health, and "drop the E. out of your name, which only encumbers...yourself only and always, Harriet Beecher Stowe." (Heretofore, she'd been "Mrs. HE Beecher Stowe.") What Calvin called fate was probably his sense that... | |
 | Thomas Loebel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 314 pages
...life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Calvin Ellis Stowe informs his wife in a letter from 1842.: "My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in...calculations accordingly. Get a good stock of health and brush up your mind ... Then my word for it, your husband will lift up his head in the gate, and... | |
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My dear, you must be a literary woman. It is so written in the book of fate. Make all your calculations accordingly. 