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
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/.
Brought up by her black Mammy...
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 Medora Leigh as an adopted daughter). This concentrates on Lady Noel Byron's...
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...
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.
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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...
Friends, Associates Sojourner Truth
ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...
Friends, Associates Camilla Crosland
CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...
Friends, Associates Anna Leonowens
While she held her teaching position, AL made friends with many of the women living at Nang Harm, the imperial harem. One pupil, Lady Son Klin, worked daily in Anna's classroom on a translation...
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.
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and his wife...
Friends, Associates Anna Leonowens
In 1872 AL met John Paine , a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Barrett Browning
During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress Charlotte Cushman and writer Matilda Hays ; she understood...
Friends, Associates Fanny Fern
While FF was a well-known writer she did not participate widely in the literary world, perhaps because of the dislike of pretension that prompted her to eschew involvement in fashionable society as well as the...
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...

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