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The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859.Set in 18th-century Newport, Rhode Island, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. [1]
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/ s t oʊ /; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist.She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
The White abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, artfully combining the genres of slave narratives and sentimental novels. [8] Although a work of fiction, Stowe based her novel on several accounts by eyewitnesses. However, the relationship between Black and White abolitionist writers was not without problems.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
It is based on the two key female figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The film stars Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Gibson Gowland, Noble Johnson and Marjorie Daw. The film was released on July 24, 1927, by United Artists. [2] [3]
Oldtown Folks is an 1869 novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.It is written from the first-person perspective of a young man named Horace Holyoke, who describes his youth in fictional Oldtown, Massachusetts – including humorous depictions of daily life, behavior of local towns folk, and the adoption of Harry and Eglantine Percival.
Louisa had a particular fondness for Thoreau and Emerson; as a young girl, they were both "sources of romantic fantasies for her." [26] Her favorite authors included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Walter Scott, Fredericka Bremer, Thomas Carlyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goethe, and John Milton, Friedrich Schiller, and Germaine de Staele. [27]
Portrait of Catharine Beecher. The American Woman's Home is a book published in 1869, co-authored by Catharine Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe.It expands upon Catharine’s 1841 book, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, which aimed to codify women's housekeeping duties and draw attention to the importance of this labor.