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1. The World That Awaited Belle 1. The Congregationalist and Christian World (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1907), 1: 137. 2. Edward F. Hayward, Lyman Beecher (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1904), 1. 3. Edwin J. Perkins, The Economy of Colonial America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 7. 4. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, Correspondence, Etc., of Lyman Beecher, D.D. (New York: Harper and Bros., 1865), 21. 5. Alan Bewell, Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 186. 6. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 22. 7. Hayward, Lyman Beecher, 11. 8. George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010), 273. 9. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 43. 10. Ibid., 45. 11. Hayward, Lyman Beecher, 12. 12. Walter Seth Logan, Thomas Hooker: The First American Democrat (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004), 19. 13. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 53. 14. Mary Kelley, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 45. 15. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 80. 16. Ibid., 76. 17. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, and Other Puritan Sermons (North Chelmsford, MA: Courier Dover Publications, 2005), v. 18. Lyman Beecher, “The Government of God Desirable: A Sermon,” delivered at Newark, New Jersey, October 1808 (Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1827), 27. 19. Milton Rugoff, The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 116. 20. Charles Kupchan, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Random House Digital, 2002), 315. Notes 182 Notes to chapter 1 21. Joseph F. Healey, Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (New York: Pine Forge Press, 2009), 142. 22. Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco, The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 20. 23. George McKenna, The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 177. 24. James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, and Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (New York: T&T Clark, 1919), 10: 514. 25. Betsy Krieg Salm, Women’s Painted Furniture, 1790–1830 (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2010), 112. 26. Paxton Hibben and Sinclair Lewis, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2003), 16. 27. National Bureau of Economic Research, Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 1920, www.nber. org/books/unkn60–1. 28. Emily Noyes Vanderpol, Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833 (Lanham, MD: University Press, 1903), 259. 29. Christine Bolt, The Women’s Movements in the United States and Great Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 41. 30. Margaret Beetham, A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800–1914 (Florence, KY: Psychology Press, 1996), 26. 31. K. H. Adler and Carrie Hamilton, Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011), 69. 32. Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman, The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 1:261. 33. Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780–1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 104. 34. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, 64. 35. Heidi Brayman Hackle and Catherine E. Kelly, Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 139. 36. Lyman Beecher, A Plea for the West (Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1835), 7. 37. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 70. 38. Ibid., 10. 39. Charles Beecher, Autobiography, 11. 40. Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, and Anne Throne Margolis, The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women’s Rights and Woman’s Sphere (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 20. 41. Susan Belasco, Stowe in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009), xxxviii. 42. Hibben, Henry Ward Beecher, 10. [18.188.44.223] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 15:55 GMT) Notes to chapter 2 183 43. Barbara A. White, The Beecher Sisters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 4. 44. Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (New York: Doubleday, 2006), 31. 45. Lyman Beecher Stowe, Saints, Sinners and Beechers (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1934), 28. 46. Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America, 27. 47...

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