The Chimney Corner
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly as conversations between Christopher Crowfield (Stowe's masculine nome de plume), and his wife, their son Ben, daughter Jenny, their friends, and various neighbors who drop in to chat around the fireside. Lively topics include women's suffrage & their education, entertainment, fashion, the economy during reconstruction, youth entertainment, and how society and its institutions should prepare young women for useful, meaningful lives besides getting married or simply depending on other family members to support them while they do little or nothing, or worse, fall into a street life. She reflects on the economic after-effects of the Civil War, and the struggle to create a more civilized nation. ( ~ Michele Fry)
Genre(s): Historical Fiction
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Ch.1 What will you do with her? or The Woman Question | Michele Fry |
00:37:55 |
Play 02 | Ch.2.1 Woman's Sphere | Michele Fry |
00:24:59 |
Play 03 | Ch. 2.2 Woman's Sphere | Michele Fry |
00:26:31 |
Play 04 | Ch. 3.1 A Family-Talk on Reconstruction | Michele Fry |
00:25:02 |
Play 05 | Ch 3.2 A family-Talk on Reconstruction | Michele Fry |
00:30:54 |
Play 06 | Ch.4 Is Woman a Worker? | susanjhudson |
00:34:25 |
Play 07 | Ch.5 The Transition | Michele Fry |
00:26:53 |
Play 08 | Ch. 6 Boily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health | weezer |
00:34:21 |
Play 09 | Ch. 7 How Shall we Entertain our Company? | Michele Fry |
00:31:01 |
Play 10 | Ch.8 How Shall we be Amused? | William Allan Jones |
00:27:40 |
Play 11 | Ch.9 Dress, or who makes the Fashions | Kathleen Moore |
00:46:47 |
Play 12 | Ch.10 What are the sources of Beauty in Dress | Kathleen Moore |
00:39:36 |
Play 13 | Ch.11 The Cathedral | William Allan Jones |
00:32:29 |
Play 14 | Ch.12 The New Year | William Allan Jones |
00:32:09 |
Play 15 | Ch.13 The Noble Army of Martyrs | KevinS |
00:21:13 |