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Informationen zum Autor Susan Belasco is professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has authored! coauthored! edited! and coedited numerous books and articles on American literature! including Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays! The Bedford Anthology of American Literature! and Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Klappentext This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her before and after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" catapulted her to fame. Included are periodical articles by Fanny Fern and Charles Dudley Warner; biographical essays by Sarah Josepha Hale and Rose Terry Cooke; letters by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Jacobs; recollections by Frederick Douglass, Annie Adams Fields, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Charles Beecher; and poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar and John Greenleaf Whittier. An introduction at the beginning of each essay connects it to its historical and cultural context, explanatory notes provide information about people and places, and the book includes a detailed introduction and a chronology of Stowe's life. Zusammenfassung One of the first celebrity authors! Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous almost overnight when ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" appeared in 1852. This volume brings together a range of primary materials about Stowe's private and public life written by family members! friends! and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her.
