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For marketing purposes, booksellers referred to it as Scott's Family Bible and printed that name on its binding. Scott's annotated bibles were popular among the wealthy and Woodward for twenty dollars. 23 As a book among books, housed within a family room, various books to read. Within those books, they had commentaries and annotations. They had a regular place, indoors with seating, to read in peace and quiet.But neither this bible, nor the other books of her library, inspired Ophelia to compassion or kindness. After she moved south to help her cousin, Augustine St. Clare, manage his household, she treated the slaves, particularly a young girl named Topsy, with organized. She routinely whipped Topsy who exhibited playful disregard for Ophelia's rules and regulations. Only after the death of her niece Eva did Ophelia begin to treat Topsy with care, going so far as to call her a friend. In Ophelia's case, her annotated family bible failed to produce action. Stowe seemed to use this particular bible to indictThe Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe hammered this point home, writing that Ophelia represented those who lacked "that spirit of love, which, in the eye of Christ, the most 24