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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Fanny Fern
She had signed a contract with Mason Brothers without being required to submit a prospectus, and on the promise that the books would be heavily promoted, an indicator of how popular Fanny Fern had become...
Publishing Harriet Jacobs
When Jacobs approached Phillips and Sampson , publishers, they would take her book only with a preface from someone known to the public, either Harriet Beecher Stowe or Nathaniel Willis . Her second choice, Thayer and Eldridge
Publishing Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
CET 's The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, featuring an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe , was published in New York in three volumes.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd.
prelims
politics Julia Ward Howe
Julia and her husband were active participants in the movement to end slavery. Samuel was hired to manage the abolitionist newspaper The Commonwealth in Boston. Julia contributed a cultural column, including a paper on Harriet Beecher Stowe
politics Harriet Martineau
HM formed links with the wing of the abolitionist movement led by William Lloyd Garrison , and made a fast friend in Maria Weston Chapman , a pivotal member of this movement. Long after her...
politics Mary Russell Mitford
She became less liberal with age; but even in old age she could be politically unpredictable. She found Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin too painful to read, and dismissed it as one-sided, exaggerated...
Occupation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP joined the Committee for the Ladies' Address to their American Sisters on Slavery, a group that, motivated by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, collected over 500,000 signatures for their anti-slavery petition.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 186
Literary responses Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe published a tribute to ST , Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl, in the Atlantic Monthly. This materially increased Truth's fame, while constructing her in a way she was not entirely happy with.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay, editors. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Norton.
197, 199
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
239
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
The Critical Review, uncertain whether to read the book as fact or fiction, said that if it was fiction it ought to have conformed to the principle of poetic justice.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 1 (1791): 469
Literary responses Elizabeth Heyrick
Historian Kenneth Corfield suggests that although EH was later credited with influencing her fellow-abolitionists towards a more urgent and combative stance, and although she may have exercised real influence on a few individuals, such as...
Literary responses Caroline Scott
This was one of the white neck-cloth
Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98.
293
or Evangelical sub-species of fiction which George Eliot distinguished in her notorious attack on the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic
Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98.
279
in Silly Novels...
Literary responses Annie Tinsley
The story was thought, however, to derive from other books, both from Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin and from Charlotte Brontë 's Villette. In an Advertisement to her next, anonymous novel, AT
Intertextuality and Influence Toni Morrison
TM discusses the political and social uses of drawing lines of categorization within and across the single human race. She uses a story by Flannery O'Connor to jolt her readers with a taste of the...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's piece makes much use of the pithy formulations and piercing wit that characterize her best prose. It conceives of writing as a powerful form of social intervention: books like Mrs. Stowe 's [...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...

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