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
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Crowe
CC 's humanitarian interests (probably influenced by George Combe ) led to her publish The Juvenile Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abridged version for young readers of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's famous work.
Kunitz, Stanley J., editor. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. H. W. Wilson Company.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Education Ketaki Kushari Dyson
As a child in a middle-class Bengali family, KKD was exposed from an early age to several languages, particularly Bengali, English, Sanskrit, German, and French. She learned English at home from her mother , who...
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...
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...
Education Margiad Evans
An important book in Peggy's early childhood was Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter . The delicate little home pictures of that delicious masterpiece spoke to her as potential artist.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
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Later favourites included Harriet Beecher Stowe
Education Fanny Fern
As a child FF attended several schools, while her resistance to the piety and obedience expected of young ladies
Walker, Nancy A. Fanny Fern. Twayne.
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apparently caused her father some concern. In the final years of her formal education she...
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...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
Writing of Bunyan's near-universal appeal, MR cites the many remarkable men
Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton.
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who have been interested in him: she moves on to the use of his imagery by Charlotte Brontë , Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
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.
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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...
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...

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