Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Standard Name: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Birth Name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
Married Name: Harriet Elizabeth Stowe
HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a biography of Lady Byron (mother of the mathematician and scientist Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace ). Much of her journalism was evangelical in tone. HBS 's reputation peaked with Uncle Tom's Cabin, after which her cultural standing declined.

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Violence Bessie Rayner Parkes
Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men
Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton.
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who have been interested in him: she moves on to the use of his imagery by Charlotte Brontë , Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Orwell
This is one of the several pieces in which Orwell champions the middlebrow or non-art writing. His supreme example
Orwell, George. The Penguin Essays of George Orwell. Penguin in association with Secker and Warburg.
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of the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Josepha Hale
In keeping with her dedication, SJH represents women writers as inhabiting very much a man's world. Her entry on Margaret Fuller , for instance, goes into detail on Fuller's father but does not mention her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Janet Hamilton
Hamilton's poetry, which is frequently didactic or moralistic, comments on British wars (including the Crimean), trade, slavery (she praises Harriet Beecher Stowe more than once), and revolution. Taking a generally Chartist line she attacks...
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
During the early 1870s, FRH composed several poems addressing the issue of religious education in schools. In light of the public debate on this subject, she wrote Plea for the Little Ones and most probably...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël 's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
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She strongly admired the...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Textual Production Harriet Jacobs
Her first thought was to have Harriet Beecher Stowe approached to tell it, but all Stowe could envisage was using some facts about HJ (after checking them with white witnesses) in her A Key to...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley , without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
Textual Production Frances Trollope
FT drew on her American experiences to produce the anti-slavery novel The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, fifteen years before Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Ellis, Linda Abess. Frances Trollope’s America. Peter Lang.
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Textual Production Eliza Cook
EC composed several poems in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852: Eva's Farewell, Poor Uncle Tom, The Mother's Leap, and Little Topsy's Song. The last was...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh

Timeline

May 1819, May 1820: These months were scheduled for the removal...

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May 1819, May 1820

These months were scheduled for the removal of thousands of subsistence farmers and their families from the Highland estates of Lord and Lady Stafford (later the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland ) in the Sutherland...

1852: In the wake of the success of Stowe's Uncle...

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1852

In the wake of the success of Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Richard Hildreth 's retitled novelThe White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive appeared in an English edition with illustrations by Charles Kean

Spring 1852: Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband...

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Spring 1852

Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband of Isabella Mary Beeton) began publishing the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, which stimulated the spread of home dressmaking.

21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...

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21 March 1853

The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough a classically misogynist letterabout women writers, their works and their looks.

April 1853: Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,...

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April 1853

Stage performer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield , an ex-slave from Mississippi and the first Black concert singer to win fame in both the US and Britian, arrived in Liverpool.

9 November 1857: The first issue appeared of the US magazine...

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9 November 1857

The first issue appeared of the US magazineAtlantic Monthly. It set out to provide articles of an abstract and permanent value, while not ignoring the healthy appetite of the mind for entertainment in...

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

1864: Famous Girls who have become Illustrious...

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1864

Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton , was published.

1868: Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs:...

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1868

Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant in Boston under the name of Mary Hamilton.

Texts

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. John P. Jewett, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Agnes of Sorrento. Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. Phillips, Sampson, 1856.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, 1845, p. v - vii.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Lady Byron Vindicated. Fields, Osgood, 1870.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Editor Fields, Annie, Houghton, Mifflin, 1898.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charles Edward Stowe. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Houghton Mifflin, 1889.
Balfour, Clara, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Morning Dew Drops; or, The Juvenile Abstainer. W. and F. G. Cash, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Fields, Osgood, 1869.
Lemon, Mark et al. Slave Life; or, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Webster, 1852.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. Phillips, Sampson, 1854.
Crowe, Catherine, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Juvenile Uncle Tom’s Cabin. George Routledge, 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Minister’s Wooing. Derby and Jackson, 1859.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Pearl of Orr’s Island. Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1844.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd, 1845.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. National Era.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. John P. Jewett, 1852.