Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1856. In Two Volumes. — Vol. 1: 508 p. Vol. 2: 514 p. Harriet Beecher Stowe published Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1856 as a follow up to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), the most successful and controversial abolitionist tract ever written. Dred is set in Chowan County, near the Great Dismal Swamp. The title character is an escaped...
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1886. — 126 p. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and abolitionist who is best remembered as the creator of Uncle Tom's Cabin , a much-beloved novel that brought emotional resonance and depth to the debate over slavery. This fascinating collection documents some of Beecher Stowe's writing on the topic of spiritualism, particularly a History of...
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. — 484 p. In 1869, Lord Byron's last mistress, Countess Guicciolo, had written a book about her life with Byron and in the book disparaged Lady Byron. Harriet Beecher Stowe was upset, and she decided to reveal that Lady Byron's husband was incestuously involved with his half-sister. Everyone in Harriet's inner circle begged her not to do so,...
Hougton, Miffin and Company. Boston and New York, 1899. — 515 p. My Wife and I , first published as magazine serials in 1871, is fictional criticisms of contemporary figures and ideas in the women's rights movement. Writing in the introduction to My Wife and I , Stowe described marriage as "the oldest and most venerable form of Christian union on record." Her chosen title, "My...
This little work is designed to adapt Mrs.Stowe's touching narrative to the understanding of the younges readers and to foster in their hearts a generous sympathy for the wronged negro race of America. The purpose of the Editor of this little Work, has been to adapt it for the juvenile family circle. The verses have accordingly been written by the Authoress for the capacity of...
First published: 1871. — 222 p. Originally published in 1871, Pink and White Tyranny is, seemingly, a light, comic story about a frivolous young girl who marries for money. However, as with most of Beecher Stowe's writings, things are not what they appear on the surface. This "society novel," instead, is a critique of the nineteenth-century's dominant view that women should use...
Library of America, 1982 - Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly - The Minister's Wooing - Oldtown Folks - Notes and Chronology written by Kathryn Kish Sklar.
Barnes & Noble Classics Series. Introduction and notes by Amanda Claybaugh. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional...
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. Stowe, a Connecticut-born preacher...
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. Stowe, a Connecticut-born preacher...
The John Harvard Library, 2009 - 623 p. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil...
The Project Gutenberg EBook, 2006. — 329 p. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American...
Hougton, Miffin and Company. Boston, 1873. — 504 p. Harriet Beecher Stowe's My Wife and I (1871) and its sequel We and Our Neighbors or, The Record of an Unfashionable Street (1875) rank, among the most neglected of her works and have not received considerable amount of critical attention. Although We and Our Neighbors engages with the same phenomenon as its predecessor My Wife...
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