Word: shaplen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOREST OF TIGERS (373 pp.)-Robert Shaplen-Knopf...
FREE LOVE AND HEAVENLY SINNERS (273 pp.)-Robert Shaplen-Knopf...
...sister), he had packed in the parishioners at Brooklyn's big Plymouth Church for 23 years. Then, at 57, and at the peak of his influence, he was accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery with her pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher...