Значение слова STOWE в Литературной энциклопедии

MRS. HARRIET BEECHER (1811?-1896).-Novelist and miscellaneous writer, _dau._ of Dr. Lyman Beecher, a well-known American clergyman, and sister of Henry Ward B., one of the most popular preachers whom America has produced, was _b._ at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811 or 1812. After spending some years as a teacher, she _m._ the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe. Up till 1852 all she had written was a little vol. of stories which failed to attract attention. In that year, at the suggestion of a sister-in-law, she decided to write something against slavery, and produced _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, which originally appeared in serial form in a magazine, _The National Era_. It did not at the time receive much attention, but on its appearance in a separate form it took the world by storm. Its sale soon reached 400,000 copies, and the reprints have probably reached a far greater number. It was translated into numerous foreign languages, and had a powerful effect in hurrying on the events which ultimately resulted in emancipation. Her later works include _Dred_, _The Minister's Wooing_, _Agnes of Sorrento_, _The Pearl of Orr's Island_, and _Old Town Folks_. Some of these, especially the last, are in a literary sense much superior to _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, but none of them had more than an ordinary success. In 1869 an article on Lord Byron involved her in a somewhat unfortunate controversy.