Harriet Beecher Stowe (14 June 1811-1 July 1896), prolific novelist, is remembered today for Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the daughter of the distinguished Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote. The...

The impact created in 1852 by the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) made her the most widely known American woman writer of the 19th century. Harriet Beecher Stowe's personality and her work are mint products of her...

Once feted as the author of the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century and among the best-paid writers of her day, Harriet Beecher Stowe fell into critical obscurity when literary modernists dismissed sentimental literature. More recently,...

Stowe stirred the conscience of the nation and the world with her famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852). Its overtly didactic advocacy of abolitionism and humanitarianism made the work popular,...

Born June 14, 1811 Litchfield, Connecticut Died July 1, 1896 Hartford, Connecticut Writer and abolitionist Author of the best-selling antislavery novel Uncle Tom's...

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and novelist, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain....

FOR YEARS, HENRY JAMES' designation of Uncle Tom's Cabin as a "wonderful 'leaping' fish"--a marvel which bore no relation to anything else--has characterized majority opinion about the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom has often been seen as unique among Stowe's own...

By Joan D. Hedrick. Oxford University. 507 pp. $35. Harriet Beecher Stowe's life spanned the nineteenth century (1811-1896), and her curiosity, career and enormous family kept her in touch with most of the major and minor movements of her time, from abolitionism...

Blooming flowers, Air Force One, wildlife, landscapes and famous women will grace new postage stamps this year as the price of mailing a letter goes up.The U.S. Postal Service announced the stamps Thursday to cover the new rates that take effect May 14, including a...

A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial Williamsburg for its museum collection, a New York dealer said.The Virginia foundation confirmed that it has the...

An American critic, novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, and editor, Fiedler is a commentator on American literature who has generated a great deal of controversy. Using primarily Marxist and Freudian perspectives, he attempts to uncover the origins of modern literature and show how myth is used in literature today. In the excerpt that follows, from an essay originally published in 1982, Fiedler discusses the myth of marriage and parenthood shared by Stowe's female audience, examining its r...

Discusses how Hannah Foster, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Beecher Stowe provide examples of woman who wrote to expose inequities in American society.

Examines the life of writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Explores her early life as a Calvinist, education and early influences. Details her work as an American abolitionist and her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a very realistic novel about slavery. She had a vivid, heartfelt and gruesome imagination. Her thoughts and were confirmed in the real life accounts of slavery written by Equiano, Jacob and Douglass.