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.
Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is seated, wearing a dark dress with long, wide sleeves, buttons up the front, and a high, ruffled collar. She holds a pair of small spectacles in her hands and her fair, short, curly hair looks unbrushed.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
3: 25
She strongly admired the...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
prelims
French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 197
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
Textual Features Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Stowe 's introduction praises CET 's works as a safe and desirable acquisition in every christian [sic] and family library in our country.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, p. v - vii.
vii
She compares CET 's descriptions of factory life to those of...
Textual Features Agnes Giberne
A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty ).
Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Seeley.
prelims
The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
Textual Features Sarah Josepha Hale
Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...
Textual Features George Eliot
In a letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe in October 1876, soon after the appearance of Daniel Deronda, GE writes bitterly of English insularity and casual anti-Semitism. Can anything be more disgusting than to hear...
Textual Features Emma Jane Worboise
The Christian World Magazine featured women in positions of authority in a wide cross-section of nationalities, time periods, and religious denominations. For example Harriet Beecher Stowe 's series of articles ironically titled Portraits of the...
Reception Dinah Mulock Craik
John Halifax was in such demand that DMC 's publishers, Hurst and Blackett , went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic...
Reception Anna Leonowens
While initial reviews, particularly in the English Athenæum, of The English Governess and its successor, The Romance of Siamese Harem Life, were somewhat skeptical of the author's veracity, the books were very successful...
Reception George Sand
Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
Reception Catharine Maria Sedgwick
CMS received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne described her as our most truthful novelist,
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne.
137
and her literary admirers also included James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe . Her...
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
Publishing George Eliot
The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman 's ownership. One of her own contributions...

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