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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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 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 | 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. |
| 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 | 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... |
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