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Eunice White Beecher (née Bullard; pen name, A Minister's Wife; August 26, 1812 – March 8, 1897) was a United States author.Appletons, 1900


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Eunice White Bullard born in West Sutton, Massachusetts, August 26, 1812. She was the daughter of Dr. Artemas Bullard and Lucy Maria White, and was educated in
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, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in
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, in 1837, he returned east to marry Eunice, having been engaged to her for over seven years. Beecher was a contributor, chiefly on domestic subjects, to various periodicals, and some of her articles were published in book form. During a long and tedious illness in her earlier married life, she wrote a series of reminiscences of her first years as a minister's wife, afterward published with the title ''From Dawn to Daylight: A Simple Story of a Western Home'' (1859) under the pen name of 'A Minister's Wife'. She also published ''Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers'' (New York, 1873), ''Letters from Florida'' (1878), ''All Around the House; or, How to Make Homes Happy'' (1878), and ''Home'' (1883). She died in
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, March 8, 1897.


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* 1812 births 1897 deaths 19th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers People from Sutton, Massachusetts Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution_people {{US-writer-stub