Stowe in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates /
"One of the first celebrity authors, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous almost overnight when Uncle Tom's Cabin - which sold more than 300,000 copies in its first year of publication - appeared in 1852. Known by virtually all famous writers in the United States and many in Eng...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2009], ©2009
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| Series: | Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Memories of my childhood in Licthfield, 1811-1824)
- Charles Edward Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe, from "The girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1811-1832)
- Charles Edward Stowe, (Stowe in Cincinnati, 1832-1836)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Life in Brunswick, December 1850)
- Sarah Josepha Hale, "Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1851)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Letter to Gamaliel Bailey on Writing Uncle Tom's cabin, 1851)
- Charles Dudley Warner, from "The story of Uncle Tom's cabin"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Autobiographical letter to Eliza Follen, 1852)
- Fanny Fern, (Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, 1853)
- Francis H. Underwood, (Stowe at a performance of Uncle Tom's cabin, 1853)
- J.C. Derby, (Stowe and the success of Uncle Tom's cabin)
- Frederick Douglass, (First meeting with Stowe, 1853)
- Harriet Jacobs, (Letters about Stowe, 1852-1853)
- Anonymous, (Stowe in Liverpool, 13 April 1853)
- Charles Beecher, (Diary entry for 14 April 1853)
- Sarah Pugh, (Stowe in London, May 1853)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Impressions of Stowe)
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, (Recollections of Stowe at Andover)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Stowe and the Atlantic Monthly dinner, 1859)
- Annie Adams Fields, "Days with Mrs. Stowe"
- Lydia Maria Child, (An evening with Stowe in 1861)
- Lucy Larcom, (Lunch with Stowe, August 1862)
- Charles Edward Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe, (Stowe and President Abraham Lincoln, 2 December 1862)
- Gail Hamilton, (Impressions of Stowe in 1867)
- Florine Thayer McCray, (Stowe's life after the Civil War)
- James Parton, from "International Copyright" (1867)
- Catharine Beecher, "Petty slanders" (1869)
- Rose Terry Cooke, (Stowe and the Lady Byron controversy, 1869-1870)
- Mark Twain, (Memories of a neighbor at Nook Farm)
- George Parsons Lathrop, (Stowe at Nook Farm)
- Anonymous, "The birthday garden party to Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1882)
- Joseph H. Twichell, "Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford" (1886)
- Alexandra Gripenberg, "Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1888)
- (An exchange between Harriet Beecher Stowe and Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1893)
- (Eulogies and remembrances of Stowe at her death in 1896)
- Isabella Beecher Hooker, A brief sketch of the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1898)
- Anonymous, "The creator of 'Uncle Tom'" (1911)