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Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Language
English
Description
Presents photos, illustrations, and information about the life of writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Civil-War-era book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Discusses her early life, marriage, success and controversy around her novel, and her connection to abolitionists and the Civil War. Includes a timeline, glossary, index, Common Core connection, and resources for further information.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xlii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 England and regarded by many women writers as a role model because of her influence in the literary marketplace, Stowe herself was the subject of many books, articles,...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 371 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.
Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume 42
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
172 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, David S. Reynolds reveals her book's impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence in the twentieth century. He explores how both Stowe's background as the daughter in a famously intellectual family of preachers and her religious visions were fundamental...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.