25 November 2022: Just a little excerpt from Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island: Mara asks Mr. Sewell about Plutarch's Lives, "Are there any lives of women?" He answers, "No, my dear...in the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's."
Joan D. Hedrick uses this passage and the epigraph to Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, which is a pretty terrific choice in so many ways.
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