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.
Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is seated, wearing a dark dress with long, wide sleeves, buttons up the front, and a high, ruffled collar. She holds a pair of small spectacles in her hands and her fair, short, curly hair looks unbrushed.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1979, pp. 277-98.
293
or Evangelical sub-species of fiction which George Eliot distinguished in her notorious attack on the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic
Eliot, George. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”. A Victorian Art of Fiction, edited by John Charles Olmsted, Garland, 1979, pp. 277-98.
279
in Silly Novels...
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, 5 series.
2d ser. 1 (1791): 469
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 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, Jr, and Nellie Y. McKay, editors. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Norton, 1997.
197, 199
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP joined the Committee for the Ladies' Address to their American Sisters on Slavery, a group that, motivated by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, collected over 500,000 signatures for their anti-slavery petition.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
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...
politics Fredrika Bremer
On 28 August 1854 the London Times printed a long letter from FB urging the women of all Christian nations to form a world alliance against war, social want, and insecurity. On the centenary of...
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 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.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
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 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 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, 1844, 3 vols.
prelims
Reception Catharine Maria Sedgwick
CMS received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne described her as our most truthful novelist,
qtd. in
Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne, 1974.
137
and her literary admirers also included James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe . Her...

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