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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Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | During her 1860 sojourn in Italy she declined an invitation to meet George Eliot
because the latter was living with a married man. Her friendship with distinguished scientist Mary Somerville
blossomed during this trip, and... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The Critical Review, uncertain whether to read the book as fact or fiction, said that if it was fiction it ought to have conformed to the principle of poetic justice. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 1 (1791): 469 |
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