Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
...
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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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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...
The British edition appeared in May, and the American edition in June.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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FK
related the stories of slave women, and asked in conclusion: Can you conceive a more wretched picture than that which it...
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Sarah Flower Adams
Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA
was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe
.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning
's early religious doubts...
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Clara Balfour
CB
published the first edition of Morning Dew Drops, a novel which later also became known as The Juvenile Abstainer, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Emma Jane Worboise
An article by EJW
published in the magazine in 1882 suggests that she received approximately 500 contributions a week.
Melnyk, Julie. “Emma Jane Worboise and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>The Christian World Magazine</span>: Christian Publishing and Women’s Empowerment”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
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...
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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
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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:...