Beecher, Henry Ward 1813-1887

Overview

Works:	1,689 works in 3,942 publications in 1 language and 46,522 library holdings
Genres:	Biography History Sermons Controversial literature Fiction Essays Bibliography Trials, litigation, etc Constitution Prayers and devotions
Roles:	Author, Editor, Writer of accompanying material, Creator, Correspondent, Compiler, Other, Author of introduction

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Most widely held works about Henry Ward Beecher

The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate( Book )
Henry Ward Beecher : an American portrait by Paxton Hibben( Book )
Henry Ward Beecher by Lyman Abbott( Book )
The meaning of Henry Ward Beecher : an essay on the shifting values of mid-Victorian America, 1840-1870 by William G McLoughlin( Book )
Trumpets of jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P.T. Barnum by Constance Rourke( Book )

Henry Ward Beecher : spokesman for a Middle-class America by Clifford Edward Clark( Book )
Trials of intimacy : love and loss in the Beecher-Tilton scandal by Richard Wightman Fox( Book )
Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton : sex and class in Victorian America by Altina L Waller( Book )
Saints, sinners and Beechers by Lyman Beecher Stowe( Book )
A biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher by William Constantine Beecher( Book )
Henry Ward Beecher; the Shakespeare of the pulpit by John Henry Barrows( Book )
Life and work of Henry Ward Beecher : an authentic, impartial, and complete history of his public career and private life from the cradle to the grave, replete with anecdotes, incidents, personal reminiscences, and character sketches, descriptive of the man and his times by Thomas Wallace Knox( Book )
Henry Ward Beecher; the Indiana years, 1837-1847 by Jane Shaffer Elsmere( Book )
Free love and heavenly sinners; the story of the great Henry Ward Beecher scandal by Robert Shaplen( Book )
Representative modern preachers by Lewis Orsmond Brastow( Book )
Beecher : a novel by Dan McCall( Book )
Beecher memorial : contemporaneous tributes to the memory of Henry Ward Beecher by Edward William Bok( )
Henry Ward Beecher as his friends saw him by Lyman Abbott( Book )
Henry Ward Beecher : a sermon preached in Plymouth Church, Sunday, January 4, 1903 by Newell Dwight Hillis( )
Life of Henry Ward Beecher, the eminent pulpit and platform orator. Being a graphic sketch of his early life, his career in the West and his crowning glory of a forty years' pastorate in Brooklyn, with narratives of his great achievements by Joseph Howard( Book )

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Most widely held works by Henry Ward Beecher

Norwood : or, Village life in New England by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

54 editions published between 1867 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,043 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of Jesus, the Christ by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

64 editions published between 1871 and 2015 in English and held by 954 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lectures to young men, on various important subjects by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

102 editions published between 1844 and 2012 in English and held by 909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Freedom and war : discourses on topics suggested by the times by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

32 editions published between 1863 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 889 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book contains the author's discourses on secession, the Union, slavery and Christian morality

Yale lectures on preaching by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

47 editions published between 1867 and 2010 in English and held by 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

34 editions published between 1887 and 2015 in English and held by 862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Star papers : or, experiences of art and nature by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

36 editions published between 1855 and 2012 in English and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author has been saved the trouble of searching for a title to his book from the simple circumstance that the articles of which the work is made up appeared in the columns of the New York Independent with the signature of a STAR, and, having been familiarly called the Star Articles, by way of designation, they now become, in a book form, STAR PAPERS. Only such papers as related to art and to rural affairs, have been published in this volume. It was thought best to put all controversial articles in another, and subsequent, volume. The letters to Europe were written to home friends, during a visit of only four weeks ; a period too short to allow the subsidence of that enthusiasm which every person must needs experience who, for the first time, stands in the historic places of the Old World. An attempt to exclude from these letters any excess of personal feeling, to reduce them to a more moderate tone, to correct their judgments, or to extract from them the fiery particles of enthusiasms, would have taken away their very life. The other papers in this volume, for the most part, were written from the solitudes of the country, during the vacations of three summers

Life thoughts : gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

52 editions published between 1858 and 2012 in English and held by 631 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lectures and orations by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

12 editions published between 1913 and 2013 in English and held by 543 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Prayers from Plymouth pulpit by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

24 editions published between 1860 and 1908 in English and held by 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Evolution and religion ... by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

39 editions published between 1885 and 2010 in English and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist minister, social reformer, journal editor and orator. People flocked to hear his lecture tours and preaching, in which - in addition to campaigning against slavery and promoting women's suffrage - he embraced the theory of evolution at a time when many pastors were violently opposed to it. Volume II of Evolution and Religion, published in 1885, two years before Beecher's death, is a collection of lectures in which he uses the insights of evolutionism to probe various facets of Christian life and doctrine, including love of God and neighbour. Beecher's powerful writing reveals the charisma and enthusiasm which made him such a popular speaker in his day and makes this book particularly rewarding reading for historians of nineteenth-century science, religion and society

The sermons of Henry Ward Beecher : in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

35 editions published between 1869 and 2008 in English and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Official report of the trial of Henry Ward Beecher by Theodore Tilton( )

14 editions published between 1875 and 2007 in English and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Henry Ward Beecher: a sketch of his career: with analyses of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator and journalist, and incidents and reminiscences of his life by Lyman Abbott( Book )

5 editions published in 1887 in English and held by 425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Woman's influence in politics : an address by Henry Ward Beecher( )

33 editions published between 1860 and 2012 in English and held by 412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Starting with the assumption that woman's first duty is to her home, Beecher argues, nevertheless, for suffrage and for women's right to pursue areas of activity beyond the confines of the home

Eyes and ears by Henry Ward Beecher( )

31 editions published between 1862 and 2012 in English and held by 403 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plain and pleasant talk about fruits, flowers, and farming by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

18 editions published between 1859 and 2010 in English and held by 372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New star papers, or, Views and experiences of religious subjects by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

14 editions published between 1859 and 2010 in English and held by 347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American rebellion. : report of the speeches of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, delivered at public meetings in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London; and at the farewell breakfasts in London, Manchester, and Liverpool by Henry Ward Beecher( )

19 editions published between 1864 and 1968 in English and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plymouth pulpit : sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher( Book )

26 editions published between 1874 and 2015 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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