"Harriet Beecher Stowe" Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/ooocha/2591850616.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
-
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Charlotte's Beecher aunts provided her with some valuable role models. As grandniece of the celebrated domestic novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe
, she was well versed in ideas about nineteenth-century domesticity and was used to the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | A slightly different picture is painted by Julia Markus in a biographical study entitled Lady Byron and her Daughters, 2015 (which counts |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mildred Cable | Another child, Little Lonely, was a deaf mute sold by her parents and abandoned by her owner. MC
, Evangeline and Francesca took her in, named her Ai-Lien Gai
from MC
's Chinese name... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Her grandmothers were also highly visible in their communities, expected to fulfill idealized social and familial expectations. Her maternal grandmother's life was memorialized in a poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe
in 1867 as a patient... |
| Friends, Associates | Sojourner Truth | ST
's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln
downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass
on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress Charlotte Cushman
and writer Matilda Hays
; she understood... |
| 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... |
| 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). qtd. in Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 68 |
| 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 | 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 | Anna Leonowens | While she held her teaching position, AL
made friends with many of the women living at Nang Harm, the imperial harem. One pupil, Lady Son Klin, worked daily in Anna's classroom on a translation... |
| 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 | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
| 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, 1993. 423-5 |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.