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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)


 
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Celebration of Women Writers Page
American Literature Sites

Brief Lecture Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multimedia Archive.  This rich  site contains background and interpretive materials on sentimental culture, minstrel shows, abolitionism, and other movements as well as reviews, responses to, and interpretations of the work. 
Mothers in Uncle Tom's America (1997). This site at the University of Virginia's Crossroads project contains images from the original publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, definitions, background information about the cult of domesticity, and other materials. 
Extended primary and secondary bibliography on Stowe by Martha Henning at the Celebration of Women Writers site.
Jane Tompkins's guide to teaching Stowe from the Heath Anthology site.
An American Family: The Beecher Tradition includes information and a great many pictures of many members of the Beecher family, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin page at the University of Wisconsin (1997).
A Matthew Brady photograph of Stowe and her two brothers, Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Beecher, taken circa 1861.
"The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin." by Charles Dudley Warner, The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 78, issue 467 (Sept 1896).(Page images at MOA)
 A. Woodward, A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, an Essay on Slavery (anti-abolitionist response to the novel; page images at the Michigan Making of America site)
"Days with Mrs. Stowe" by Annie Adams Fields (Atlantic, 1896; page images from MOA)
"Aunt Harriet Becha Stowe." This minstrel show song from 1853 protests abolitionism and promotes the myth of contented slaves.

Works Available Online 

Books Stories and Poems (HTML) Articles (Page images at Making of America)

 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Jewett, 1854) The Christian Slave: A Drama Founded Upon a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855) The Minister's Wooing (1859):  Page images at the Michigan MOA site
The Pearl of Orr's Island (1866):Page images at the Michigan MOA site
Pink and White Tyranny: A Society Novel (1871): Page Images at the Michigan MOA site
 
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken (frames; HTML at Virginia)
  •  House and Home Papers (1869) (page images at MOA)
  • Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources (1873)(page images at MOA)
  • "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (1875) (publisher's dummy; includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe), by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse (page images at MOA)
  • Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives (1878) (illustrated HTML at Virginia's E-Text Center)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (New Version): A Melodrama in Five Acts (New York: Harold Roorbach, 1889), by Charles Townsend, also contrib. by George L. Aiken (HTML at Virginia)
  • Queer Little Folks (T. Nelson and Sons, 1897) (Gutenberg text)

  • Stories, Poems, and Essays (HTML) at the 19th Century American Women Writers Legacy site:

    "The Two Altars" (story; 1851)
    "Consolation" (poem; 1862)
    "The Crocus" (poem; no date)
    "Knocking" (poem; no date)
    "Lines" (poem; 1860)
    "Mary at the Cross" (poem; no date)
    "The Other World" (poem; no date)
    "The Old Psalm Tune" (poem; no date)
    "A Reply" (essay; 1862)

    Articles and Stories (Page Images at MOA)

    "A Reply to the Address of the Women of England" (Atlantic, 1863)
    "Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl" (Atlantic, 1863)
    "The Parson's Horse-Race" (Atlantic, 1878)
    "The Education of Freedmen" (North American Review, 1879)
     "The Education of Freedmen. Part II"
    "The Modern Martyrdom of St. Perpetua" (Atlantic, 1879)
     "Our Florida Plantation" (Atlantic, 1879)
    "A Student's Sea Story" (Atlantic, 1879)



     

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