Lyman Beecher (1775-1863)

Beecher, Lyman. Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. Edited by Charles Beecher. 2 vols. New York: Harper, 1864-65.

—Autobiography. Edited by Barbara Cross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.

Caskey, Marie Carpenter. Chariot of Fire: Religion and the Beecher Family. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Based on her Yale (1974) dissertation, this work investigates the relationships between religious upbringing and beliefs and the psychological development of Lyman Beecher's eleven children.

—"Faith and Theology in the Beecher Family, 1775-1907." Doctoral disserta­tion, Yale, 1974. An intellectual biography of Lyman Beecher and his family.

French, Earl A., and Royce, Diana, eds. Portraits of a 19th-century Family: A Sym­posium on the Beecher Family. Hartford: Stowe-Day, 1976.

Henry, Stuart dark. Unvanquished; Portrait of Lyman Beecher. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Erdmans, 1973.

Hooker, Isabella Beecher. "The Last of the Beechers: Memories on my Eighty-Third Birthday." Connecticut Magazine 9(1905)2:287-306. Published with sev­eral short pieces about her.

Rourke, Constance Mayfield. Trumpets of Jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P. T. Bamum. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927.

Rugoff, Milton. The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Harper and Row, 1981. Intended for a non-specialist readership, this work, nevertheless is the best study of the family yet done, according to Robert Abzug (American Historical Review 87, June 1982, p. 853).