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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.
Connections
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|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe
at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Jacobs | |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | During her 1860 sojourn in Italy she declined an invitation to meet George Eliot
because the latter was living with a married man. Her friendship with distinguished scientist Mary Somerville
blossomed during this trip, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | Gaskell was also well acquainted with Harriet Beecher Stowe
, who travelled the British Isles and Europe extensively in the 1850s. The two women spent time together in England, at Gaskell's home, and in... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
adored Rome, and she and her daughters were much sought after there. They met there Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(although their visit with the poets was not a success). Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 423-5 |
| Friends, Associates | William Morris | While studying at Oxford
, he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones
, who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford
, Charles Faulkner
, Cormell Price
, and Richard Watson Dixon |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter
and Louise Guiney
, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe
(whose funeral she and Annie Fields
attended in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Her grandmothers were also highly visible in their communities, expected to fulfill idealized social and familial expectations. Her maternal grandmother's life was memorialized in a poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe
in 1867 as a patient... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | Marie Louise (Day) Sanders
, AB
's mother, was an American from New Orleans, Louisiana (where her English husband met her on a business trip). She died in 1922 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | A slightly different picture is painted by Julia Markus in a biographical study entitled Lady Byron and her Daughters, 2015 (which counts |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mildred Cable | Another child, Little Lonely, was a deaf mute sold by her parents and abandoned by her owner. MC
, Evangeline and Francesca took her in, named her Ai-Lien Gai
from MC
's Chinese name... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Orne Jewett | Fields and Jewett had many nicknames for each other: SOJ
was sometimes Pinny Lawson, or P. L., an amalgam of her family nickname and the surname of the village storyteller Sam Lawson in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's father, Frederick Beecher Perkins
, descended from the prominent Beecher family and counted abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe
among his immediate forebears. Frederick's anxiety about his ability to live up to his family... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Charlotte's Beecher aunts provided her with some valuable role models. As grandniece of the celebrated domestic novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe
, she was well versed in ideas about nineteenth-century domesticity and was used to the... |
| Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
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