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Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–96):


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). Charlotte was extremely interested in the book and its author, feeling in it genuine experience and anger. She felt that “the iron of slavery” had entered into Stowe’s heart “from childhood upwards long before she ever thought of writing books,” and that therefore “her work is sincere and not got up” (to GS, 30 Oct 1852). She may be contrasting this genuine and well-informed opposition to slavery with the more superficial reactions of, for example, Dickens and Mrs Trollope. Mrs Gaskell recorded ( Life , v. 2, ch. 13) that Mrs Stowe’s “small and slight” appearance confirmed some theory of Charlotte’s. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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