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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
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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