The Limits of Sisterhood

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females Catherine Esther Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power each in her own way - Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels tales and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate - devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.