| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.3

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Richard Wightman Fox. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 419. $30.00.

With this book Richard Wightman Fox joins the brave band of historians who defy present conventions of historical narrative. His story is an often-told one of intense friendship that dissolved into scandal and a ruined marriage. The friendship was between Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous Protestant minister of the day, and a younger, reform-minded couple, Theodore and Elizabeth Tilton. In 1874, Theodore sued Beecher for "criminal conversation" with Elizabeth and for alienation of her affections. The 1875 trial was inconclusive, which never prevented confident assertions about what really happened between Henry and Elizabeth. Among the virtues of this account is its dismantling of those assertions, including a recent one that Elizabeth carried Henry's child. Equally important is Fox's insistence that we understand the bonds between Henry and Theodore and the religious and moral worlds of the three, rather than focus on whether or not Henry and Elizabeth committed adultery. . . .

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