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,...

Harriet Beecher Stowe 's greatest fame derives from the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin upon readers of all ages. Its characters, Uncle Tom, Little Eva, Topsy, and Simon Legree, have assumed mythological dimensions in the folk imagination of the world. The...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who has been described as "a 'genius' in a family of eccentrics," is best known for her 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. Few American books have as spectacular a publishing history. The novel...

Greeted in her own time with vast popular acclaim in the Northern states--and with disdain by Southern slaveholding interests--Harriet Beecher Stowe remains widely known today. Yet, her reputation rests mainly on a single book--Uncle Tom's Cabin; or,...

Although Harriet Beecher Stowe was widely renowned as the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story whose strong message against slavery has been heard around the world, Theodore R. Hovet asserted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography that Stowe...

Until fairly recently Harriet Beecher Stowe has been remembered almost exclusively for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). For almost a half century, however, she not only wrote some of the finest regional novels in American literature but was also a steady...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) became not only a phenomenal best-seller but a moral instrument. Combining domesticity and sentiment with violence and realism, this novel was the target of vehement controversy upon publication and is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) became not only a phenomenal best-seller but a moral instrument. Combining domesticity and sentiment with violence and realism, this novel was the target of vehement controversy upon publication and is...

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...