Daughters of the Puritans, Seth Curtis Beach
Daughters of the Puritans, Seth Curtis Beach
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Daughters of the Puritans
A Group of Brief Biographies

Author: Seth Curtis Beach

Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 02/14/2023

Synopsis

Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation.This audiobook contains biographies of:Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789–1867Mary Lovell Ware - 1798–1849Lydia Maria Child - 1802–1880Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802–1887Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810–1850Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1811–1896Louisa May Alcott - 1832–1888

About Seth Curtis Beach

Seth Curtis Beach (1837–1932) was a Unitarian minister, author, poet, and hymnist.

About Rebecca H. Lee

Rebecca H. Lee grew up in Washington State, where she graduated from the University of Washington with a double degree in Drama and Music. She has spent much of her adult life traveling abroad and working as a performer in resorts, theme parks, and cruise ships, but now stays mainly at home in Seattle with her loved ones, narrating audiobooks and performing improv and scripted theater on stage. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Colleen on November 19, 2021

I looked this up on Project Gutenberg for the section on Dorothea Dix. The writing style is a bit long-winded in places, but it was an interesting synopsis of her life. As it doesn't include citations for many of the author's claims, I'm unsure how much is supposition and how much is accurate, but i......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on March 14, 2015

This book was made up of a collection of short biographies – some of the people I had heard of and others which I had not, and I found it quite interesting to learn about the lives of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe and I have now hunted out some of their other works of fiction which I h......more

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