Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

American author and abolitionist, famous for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which attacked the cruelty of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Works

• A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
• The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862)
• As "Christopher Crowfield"
  • House and Home Papers (1865)
  • Little Foxes (1866)
  • The Chimney Corner (1868)
• Old Town Folks (1869)
• Lady Byron Vindicated (1870)
• My Wife and I (1871)
• Poganuc People (1878)

Novels

• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851)
• We and Our Neighbors (1875)
• Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
• Pink and White Tyranny (1871)

Short stories

• “The Tea Rose” in The Female Prose Writers of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their Writings by John Seely Hart (1852)
• The Minister's Wooing (1859)
• Queer Little Folks, 1897
• The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House (1870)
• A Dog's Mission
• Little Pussy Willow
• The First Christmas of New England, 1876

Poetry

• The Other World
• The Twelve Months: A New Year's Dream
• Lines...
• Knocking
• The Crocus
• Consolation
• Mary at the Cross
• The Old Psalm Tune

Hymns

• Still, Still with Thee (1855)

Letters

• Letter to her friend, Georgiana May, 1838
• Letters to her husband, Calvin, 1845-1849, daily business, death of son
• Letter to congressman, Horace Mann, 1852
• Letter to Gerrit Smith, 1852, [1]
• Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 1853, discussing Frederick Douglass

Works about Stowe

• “Harriet Beecher Stowe” in The Female Prose Writers of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their Writings by John Seely Hart (1852)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• Charles Edward Stowe, “Stowe, Calvin Ellis,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher,” Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.