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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Reception Anna Leonowens
While initial reviews, particularly in the English Athenæum, of The English Governess and its successor, The Romance of Siamese Harem Life, were somewhat skeptical of the author's veracity, the books were very successful...
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
and her literary admirers also included James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe . Her...
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
She compares CET 's descriptions of factory life to those of...
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...
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 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
Textual Production Harriet Jacobs
Her first thought was to have Harriet Beecher Stowe approached to tell it, but all Stowe could envisage was using some facts about HJ (after checking them with white witnesses) in her A Key to...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley , without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
prelims
French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 197
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
Textual Production Frances Trollope
FT drew on her American experiences to produce the anti-slavery novel The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, fifteen years before Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Ellis, Linda Abess. Frances Trollope’s America. Peter Lang.
139
Textual Production Eliza Cook
EC composed several poems in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852: Eva's Farewell, Poor Uncle Tom, The Mother's Leap, and Little Topsy's Song. The last was...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
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.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning 's early religious doubts...
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
FK related the stories of slave women, and asked in conclusion: Can you conceive a more wretched picture than that which it...

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