The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher: Volume I: Cross, Barbara M.: The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher. Volume I

This is the colorful self-portrait of a central figure in American Protestantism; Lyman Beecher played a major role between 1790 and 1850 in creating an expansive evangelical faith. The Autobiography is a rich mosaic of records, reminiscences, and correspondence gathered by Beecher’s many children (among them, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher). It has significant cultural interest as the history of a modified Calvinism, and of a dynamic conception of a disestablished national church; and it offers a striking picture of the turbulent inner life of a nineteenth-century New England family. CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF LYMAN BEECHER’S LIFE SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY I INTRODUCTION II ANCESTRY III EARLY DAYS IV EARLY EDUCATION V FITTING FOR COLLEGE VI YALE VII YALE, Continued IX SENIOR YEAR Χ NUTPLAINS XI ROXANA FOOTE XII DIVINITY YEAR XIII PRELUDE TO EARLY CORRESPONDENCE XIV EARLY CORRESPONDENCE XV COMMENCEMENT OF MINISTRY XVI EASTHAMPTON XVII PREACHING AS A CANDIDATE XVIII ORDINATION XIX SETTING UP HOUSEKEEPING XX ILL HEALTH XXI MARY HUBBARD XXII THE SCHOOL XXIII HOUSEHOLD RECOLLECTIONS XXIV EARLY AUTHORSHIP XXV VOYAGE UP THE NORTH RIVER XXVI HARVEST XXVII CATHOLICITY XXVIII MONTAUK XXIX RESOLVES TO LEAVE EAST HAMPTON XXX VISITS LITCHFIELD — LETTERS XXXI FAREWELL TO EAST HAMPTON XXXII LITCHFIELD XXXIII REMOVAL XXXIV REMINISCENCES OF LITCHFIELD XXXV CORRESPONDENCE, 1810-1811 XXXVI CORRESPONDENCE, 1811-1812 XXXVII THE TEMPERANCE REFORMATION XXXVIII AGITATION XXXIX ORGANIZING XL THE LAST WAR XLI BUILDING WASTE PLACES XLII AFFLICTIONS XLIII DOMESTIC AFFAIRS XLIV CORRESPONDENCE, 1815-1816 XLV BEREAVEMENT XLVI FILIAL RECOLLECTIONS XLVII VISIT TO NUTPLAINS XLVIII AUNT ESTHER XLIX REMINISCENCES OF DR. DWIGHT L CORRESPONDENCE, 1816-1817 LI DOWNFALL OF THE STANDING ORDER LII THE BIBLE A CODE OF LAWS LIII HARRIET PORTER LIV CORRESPONDENCE, 1817-1818 LV CORRESPONDENCE, 1818-1819 LVI CORRESPONDENCE, 1819 LVII THE TOLERATION DREAM LVIII CORRESPONDENCE, 1819, Continued LIX THE LOCAL CHURCH LX CORESPONDENCE, 1819, Continued LXI CORRESPONDENCE, 1820 LXII CORRESPONDENCE, 1820-1821 LXIII OVERWORK LXIV CORRESPONDENCE, 1821 LΧV CORRESPONDENCE, 1822 LXVI CORRESPONDENCE, 1822, Continued LXVII CORRESPONDENCE, 1823 LXVIII CORRESPONDENCE, 1823, Continued LXIX EARLY REMEMBRANCES LXX CORRESPONDENCE, 1823, Continued LXXI CORRESPONDENCE, 1824 LXXII THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS