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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 145 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine de Staël | After completing this novel GS
wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , pp. 12-35. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Annie S. Swan | She tells her own story briskly and dryly, with more humour than sentiment. This style comes into its own when relating the horrifying events on the home front during World War One. She concludes the... |
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... |
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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Jane Worboise | Each chapter begins with a religious epigraph. This novel recounts the story of the attractive nineteen-year-old bride, Lilian Grey, who makes a marriage above her social class with the aristocratic Basil Hope. Worboise, Emma Jane. The Wife’s Trials; Married Life; Husbands and Wives. Garland. Wife's Trials: 1-3, 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's novel was probably also inspired by her role two years earlier as the quadroon Zelinda in Thomas Morton
's The Slave, playing opposite black American actor Ira Aldridge
. Braddon had probably... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances E. W. Harper | Her work was inflected by abolitionist authors who came before her. In 1854 she published in The Liberator and Frederick Douglass
' Paper the poem Eliza Harris, named for a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Leonowens | The stories detail the lives and romances of women living in Siam's royal harem. Like her first book, this one is informed by the generic expectations of a northern United States audience recently triumphant... |
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 |
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