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
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Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne
described her as our most truthful novelist, Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne. 137 |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | John Halifax was in such demand that DMC
's publishers, Hurst and Blackett
, went through four sets of plates by 1858, and many other publishers put out editions on both sides of the Atlantic... |
Textual Features | Sarah Josepha Hale | Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a... |
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... |
Textual Features | Emma Jane Worboise | The Christian World Magazine featured women in positions of authority in a wide cross-section of nationalities, time periods, and religious denominations. For example Harriet Beecher Stowe
's series of articles ironically titled Portraits of the... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Stowe
's introduction praises CET
's works as a safe and desirable acquisition in every christian [sic] and family library in our country. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, Dodd, p. v - vii. vii |
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 |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | The British edition appeared in May, and the American edition in June. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 178-9 |
Textual Production | Sarah Flower Adams | Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA
was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Textual Production | Clara Balfour | CB
published the first edition of Morning Dew Drops, a novel which later also became known as The Juvenile Abstainer, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | An article by EJW
published in the magazine in 1882 suggests that she received approximately 500 contributions a week. Melnyk, Julie. “Emma Jane Worboise and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>The Christian World Magazine</span>: Christian Publishing and Women’s Empowerment”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 29 , No. 2, pp. 131-45. 135 |
Textual Production | Frances Ridley Havergal | During the early 1870s, FRH
composed several poems addressing the issue of religious education in schools. In light of the public debate on this subject, she wrote Plea for the Little Ones and most probably... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël
's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually. Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 3: 25 |
Textual Production | Anne Marsh | The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth
: She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM |
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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