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.
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Literary responses | Elizabeth Heyrick | Historian Kenneth Corfield
suggests that although EH
was later credited with influencing her fellow-abolitionists towards a more urgent and combative stance, and although she may have exercised real influence on a few individuals, such as... |
Literary responses | Caroline Scott | This was one of the white neck-cloth Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 293 Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, pp. 277-98. 279 |
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 |
Literary responses | Sojourner Truth | Harriet Beecher Stowe
published a tribute to ST
, Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl, in the Atlantic Monthly. This materially increased Truth's fame, while constructing her in a way she was not entirely happy with. Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay, editors. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Norton. 197, 199 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 |
Occupation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
joined the Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 186 |
politics | Julia Ward Howe | Julia and her husband were active participants in the movement to end slavery. Samuel was hired to manage the abolitionist newspaper The Commonwealth in Boston. Julia contributed a cultural column, including a paper on Harriet Beecher Stowe |
politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
formed links with the wing of the abolitionist movement led by William Lloyd Garrison
, and made a fast friend in Maria Weston Chapman
, a pivotal member of this movement. Long after her... |
politics | Mary Russell Mitford | She became less liberal with age; but even in old age she could be politically unpredictable. She found Harriet Beecher Stowe
's Uncle Tom's Cabin too painful to read, and dismissed it as one-sided, exaggerated... |
Publishing | George Eliot | The first number of the Westminster Review to appear under her anonymous (and unpaid) editorship was that of January 1852, which was also the first under John Chapman
's ownership. One of her own contributions... |
Publishing | Fanny Fern | She had signed a contract with Mason Brothers
without being required to submit a prospectus, and on the promise that the books would be heavily promoted, an indicator of how popular Fanny Fern had become... |
Publishing | Harriet Jacobs | When Jacobs approached Phillips and Sampson
, publishers, they would take her book only with a preface from someone known to the public, either Harriet Beecher Stowe
or Nathaniel Willis
. Her second choice, Thayer and Eldridge |
Publishing | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | CET
's The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth, featuring an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe
, was published in New York in three volumes. Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. M. W. Dodd. prelims |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
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 | George Sand | Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS
: Geraldine Jewsbury
, Matilda Hays
, Anne Ogle
, Eliza Lynn Linton
, Mathilde Blind
, and, most notably, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
and George Eliot |
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