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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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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Fern | While FF
was a well-known writer she did not participate widely in the literary world, perhaps because of the dislike of pretension that prompted her to eschew involvement in fashionable society as well as the... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe
at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | In Washington FHB
quickly made new friends, particularly the journalist Julia Schayer
(who soon after they met wrote of her as the Coming Woman). Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus. 68 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Jacobs | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | Gaskell was also well acquainted with Harriet Beecher Stowe
, who travelled the British Isles and Europe extensively in the 1850s. The two women spent time together in England, at Gaskell's home, and in... |
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 |
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