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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Female : Novelist. Married Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. Although not herself an Abolitionist her supporters were
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Lichfield, Connecticut

Date of Birth : 1811 Date of Death : 1896 Age : 85

Pseudonyms : Christopher Crowfield

Other Work : Taught at a girl's school in Cincinnati from 1832
1833-1850
Primary Geography for Children
(1833 Corey & Fairbank, US)
The Mayflower, or Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the Descendants of
the Pilgrims
(1843 Harper)

1852-1855
Uncle Tim and Other Tales
(1852 London) - same as above
Earthly Care : A Heavenly Discipline
(1852 Boston) (1852 Edinburgh)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly
(1852 John P Jewett, Boston) - 2 vols
[First issued in an anti-slavery newspaper.
In book form over 300,000 copies were sold in the US in the first year of publication,
and by 1862 2 million copies.]

Offered in 1999 for £7575
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Negro Life in the Slave States of America
(1852 Clarke, London 2/6) - unillustrated
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Negro Life in the Slave States of America
(1852 Cassell. London) - George Cruikshank
Offered in 1999 for £2120
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1852 John P Jewett, Boston) (1853 Bosworth Clarke Beeton)
[Because the book was attacked in the US, Stowe wrote this to prove the authenticity
of her tale, listing her sources. See Josiah Henson]

Uncle Sam's Emancipation, and Other Tales & Sketches
(1853 London)
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
(1854 Phillips Sampson, US) - Hammatt Billings .10,000
(1854 Sampson Low) - 2 vols (1854 Nelson)

1856-1860
Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
(1856 Phillips, Sampson : Boston)
(1856 Sampson Low - 2 vols)
The Minister's Wooing
(1859 Derby & Jackson, NY) (1859 Sampson Low - Phiz )
Our Charlie and What to do With Him
(1859 London)

1861-1865
Agnes of Sorrento
(1862 Houghton Mifflin) (1862 London)
The Pearl of Orr's Island
(1862 Houghton Mifflin) (1861-2 London - 2 vols)
A Reply to the .. Women of Great Britain & Ireland
(1863 London)
Stories about Our Dogs
(1865 Edinburgh)
Household Papers and Stories
(1865 Houghton Mifflin)
(1865 Sampson Low as "House & Home Papers") - by Christopher Crowfield

1866-1870
Little Foxes, or The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness
(1866 Ticknor & Fields)
(1866 Bell & Daldy) - by Christopher Crowfield
Queer Little People
(1867 Boston) (1868 London)
The Daisy's First Winter & Other Stories
(1867 Edinburgh)
Religious Poems
(1867 Boston)
Men of Our Times : Biographical Sketches
(1868 Hartford Pub, US)
The Chimney Corner
(1868 Ticknor & Fields) (1868 London as "The Chimney Corner")
- by Christopher Crowfield
Oldtown Folks
(1869 Houghton Mifflin) (1869 London - 3 vols)
Little Pussy Willow
(1870 Fields, Osgood, Boston) (1871 London)
Lady Byron Vindicated : A History of the Byron Controversy
(1870 Fields Osgood)
(1870 Sampson Low)

1871-1900
Pink and White Tyranny : A Society Novel
(1871 Roberts Bros) (1871 London)
My Wife and I, or Harry Henderson's History
(1871 Houghton Mifflin) (1871 Sampson Low)
Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other
(1872 Roberts, Boston) - et al
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
(1872)
Palmetto Leaves
(1873 Osgood, Boston)
Woman in Sacred History : A Series of Sketches
(1874 J B Ford, NY) (1874 Sampson Low)
Deacon Pitkin's Farm & Christ's Christmas Presents
(1875 London)
We and Our Neighbours, or the Records of an Unfashionable Street
(1875 J B Ford, NY) (1874 Rose Library)
Betty's Bright Idea and Other stories
(1876 J B Ford, NY) (1876 Scottish Temperance League)
Footsteps of the Master
(1877 London)
Poganuc People : Their Loves and Lives
(1878 Fords, Howard & Hurlbert NY) (1878 London)
A Dog's Mission .. and Other Stories
(1887 Nelson)

After 1900
Young Folks Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1901 Jamieson-Higgins, Chicago) - Ike Morgan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1938 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Miguel Covarrubias

READING
Rev Josiah Henson : Uncle Tom's Story of His Life
(1877 Christian Age Office) - preface by Stowe
Charles Edward Stowe : The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from Her Letters & Journals
(1889 Sampson Low)
Forrest Wilson : Crusader in Crinoline
(1942 Hutchinson)
Joan Hedrick : Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1994 OUP, US $35)

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