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
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
Education | Beatrix Potter | Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP
enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields
(who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin. 145 |
Occupation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
joined the Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 186 |
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... |
Education | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
's parents encouraged her intellectual development from an early age. Among the important first texts she read were Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress and John BunyanHoly War, and Carlyle
's French Revolution. Her mother... |
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. 326 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 197 |
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... |
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 |
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