Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',...Patricia Beer Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar...Ethel Clark Harriet Beecher StowePrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was ...Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and con...Queen Victoria Harriet Beecher StoweDred: A Tale of the Dismal SwampPrint: Book
1850-1899' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature canno...Lady Frances Balfour Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ...Emmeline Pankhurst Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with M...Henry James Harriet Beecher Stowe[two or three works]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I .....Henry James Harriet Beecher StoweOld Town FolksPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which I should not omit to mention, since it made a great sensation when it ap...Peter Burt Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna ...Anna Symons Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till she must have known by heart every incident of t...Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book

 

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