Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
Autore di La capanna dello zio Tom
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Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of nine children of the distinguished Congregational minister and stern Calvinist, Lyman Beecher. Of her six brothers, five became ministers, one of whom, Henry Ward Beecher, was considered the finest pulpit orator of his day. In 1832 Harriet mostra altro Beecher went with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio. There she taught in her sister's school and began publishing sketches and stories. In 1836 she married the Reverend Calvin E. Stowe, one of her father's assistants at the Lane Theological Seminary and a strong antislavery advocate. They lived in Cincinnati for 18 years, and six of her children were born there. The Stowes moved to Brunswick, Maine, in 1850, when Calvin Stowe became a professor at Bowdoin College. Long active in abolition causes and knowledgeable about the atrocities of slavery both from her reading and her years in Cincinnati, with its close proximity to the South, Stowe was finally impelled to take action with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. By her own account, the idea of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) first came to her in a vision while she was sitting in church. Returning home, she sat down and wrote out the scene describing the death of Uncle Tom and was so inspired that she continued to write on scraps of grocer's brown paper after her own supply of writing paper gave out. She then wrote the book's earlier chapters. Serialized first in the National Era (1851--52), an important abolitionist journal with national circulation, Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form in March 1852. It was an immediate international bestseller; 10,000 copies were sold in less than a week, 300,000 within a year, and 3 million before the start of the Civil War. Family legend tells of President Abraham Lincoln (see Vol. 3) saying to Stowe when he met her in 1862: "So this is the little lady who made this big war?" Whether he did say it or not, we will never know, since Stowe left no written record of her interview with the president. But he would have been justified in saying it. Certainly, no other single book, apart from the Bible, has ever had any greater social impact on the United States, and for many years its enormous historical interest prevented many from seeing the book's genuine, if not always consistent, literary merit. The fame of the novel has also unfortunately overshadowed the fiction that Stowe wrote about her native New England: The Minister's Wooing (1859), Oldtown Folks (1869), Poganuc People (1878), and The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862), the novel that, according to Sarah Orne Jewett, began the local-color movement in New England. Here Stowe was writing about the world and its people closest and dearest to her, recording their customs, their legends, and their speech. As she said of one of these novels, "It is more to me than a story. It is my resume of the whole spirit and body of New England." (Bowker Author Biography) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) remains one of the most influential writers in American history. Following the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" she became an instant celebrity, speaking against slavery in the United States & Europe. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
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Opere di Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Minister's Wooing, Oldtown Folks (1982) 389 copie
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded (1853) 114 copie
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe (1889) 39 copie
Illustrated Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Emancipation Proclamation: With 120 Illustrations (2020) 12 copie
"The Mayflower, Or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims." (1900) 11 copie
The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume: 150 Tales, Poems & Carols (Illustrated): Silent Night, Ring Out… (2015) 3 copie
A cabana do pai Tomás - Vol. 1 2 copie
Religious Studies Sketches and Poems: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe Volume XV (2018) 2 copie
Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children [Adapted from the Work of H.B. Stowe] (2013) — Orginal novel — 2 copie
Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Huge collection. (40 Works) Includes Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sunny Memories of Foreign… (2007) 2 copie
Mr. And Mrs. Woodbridge 2 copie
A cabana do pai Tomás - Vol. 2 2 copie
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Riverside Edition, Volume IX, in Two Volume, Volume I, Oldtown Folks and Sam… (1896) 2 copie
La cabaña del Tío Tom (Tomo II) 1 copia
Chaloupka strýčka Toma 1 copia
La case de l'oncle Tom 1 copia
Tamás bátya kunyhója 1 copia
Our Famous Women 1 copia
Knocking, Knocking 1 copia
Onkel Toms stuga I 1 copia
How to Live On Christ 1 copia
Uncle Tom's cabin 1 copia
The Fat Pirate 1 copia
Pink and White Tyranny (1871). By: Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Novel (Original Classics), Illustrated. (2017) 1 copia
Tales from Real Life 1 copia
The Works: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1 copia
Uncle Toms Cabin 1 copia
Onkel Tooms stuga II 1 copia
“The Seamstress” 1 copia
Onkel Tom 1 copia
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Volume I 1 copia
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Volume II 1 copia
The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin - Specially Adapted for Scholastic Use (Junior Children's Library) (1852) 1 copia
Stowe Novels 1 copia
Oldtown Folks II, and Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories (Novels and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fireside… (1910) 1 copia
Young Folk's Uncle Tom's cabin Adapted for Children. With Original illustrations by Ike Morgan 1 copia
The Ghost in the Mill 1 copia
De profeet in de wildernis, of De vloek der slavernij : toneelen uit 't slavenleven in Noord-Amerika 1 copia
Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 1 copia
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Archive 1 copia
Uncle Tom's Cabin 1 copia
Pink And White Tyranny 1 copia
DRED / Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 2 1 copia
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Vol. I 1 copia
Our Famous Women: Comprising the Lives and Deeds of American Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves 1 copia
House And Home Papers 1 copia
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vol. I 1 copia
De slavernij 1 copia
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Riverside Edition - Volume VI: The Pearl of Orr's Island (one volume) (1896) 1 copia
The minister's wedding 1 copia
Dred Scott 1 copia
Poganuc People 1 copia
Household Papers And Stories 1 copia
My Wife And I 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Collaboratore — 145 copie
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
Twelve Years a Slave / Life of Frederick Douglass / Uncle Tom's Cabin / Life of Josiah Henson / Incidents in the Life… (2014) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 25 copie
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Truth Stranger than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1876) — Introduzione; Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 15 copie
The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Slave Narrative (Six Pack 1)- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Twelve Years A Slave, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation,… (2015) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Representative American Short Stories — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature (2005) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth
- Altri nomi
- Crowfield, Christopher
- Data di nascita
- 1811-06-14
- Data di morte
- 1896-07-01
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Causa della morte
- Modern researchers now speculate that at the end of her life she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Istruzione
- Hartford Female Seminary, Connecticut, USA
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
short story writer
abolitionist
novelist - Relazioni
- Beecher, Lyman (father)
Beecher, Henry Ward (brother)
Beecher, Charles (brother)
Beecher, Edward (brother)
Hooker, Isabella Beecher (sister)
Beecher, Catharine Esther (sister) (mostra tutto 9)
Perkins, Frederic B. (nephew)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (grand-niece)
Stowe, Charles Edward (son) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
- Breve biografia
- Harriet Beecher of the remarkable Beecher clan attended the school for girls run by her sister Catharine. In 1836, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor of Biblical literature. To help support her growing family (she had 7 children), Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote short stories and ran a small school in her home. She was catapulted to fame and helped turn millions of people away from slavery with the publication of her instant bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851. Upon meeting her in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln is alleged to have said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.
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- ISBN
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- Lingue
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- Preferito da
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Certo non bisogna dimenticare che è figlio del suo tempo, infatti non mancano semplificazioni e stereotipi sugli afro-americani; anche lo stile ricalca in pieno quello sentimentale e paternalistico tanto in voga nel XIX secolo; il tema della religione poi è fin troppo centrale: la fede (rigorosamente cristiana) è la soluzione di tutti i problemi e chi non ne ha non può sperare di salvarsi.
Questi difetti, evidenti ad un occhio moderno, non riescono però a cancellare i meriti dell'opera. Innanzitutto il messaggio in essa contenuto non è solo lodevole, ma per l'epoca anche coraggioso e progressista. Inoltre dietro al moralismo si nasconde un'analisi acuta della società: non sempre abolizionismo e razzismo andavano di pari passo, anzi spesso erano i proprietari del sud a formare dei legami d'affetto coi loro servi di colore, mentre al nord predicavano la libertà ma non volevano avere niente a che fare con i neri. Questo nel romanzo è espresso chiaramente, insieme a molti altri piccoli dettagli che dimostrano come la Stowe avesse una visione lucida del contesto politico di quegli anni.
Dal punto di vista strettamente letterario è un libro coinvolgente e scorrevole, che nonostante calchi la mano sui buoni sentimenti presenta dei personaggi complessi come la piccola Topsy e Augustine St. Claire.
Forse non è un'opera invecchiata bene, ma vale comunque la pena di leggerla sia come documento storico che per commuoversi di fronte ad una trama ingenua ma toccante.… (altro)