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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 274 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 34 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 30 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 28 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 13 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 12 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 12 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 12 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
n book form; and had very marked influence on her younger contemporaries. Mrs. Child's Letters from New York were so brilliant as to be ranked with similar work of Lowell's for quality, but have now almost passed into oblivion. The same is true of Miss Sedgwick; and Miss Alcott's name, though still living and potent with children, no longer counts for much with their elders. Of wider power was the work of three other women, whose names are, for different reasons, still remembered: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Helen Jackson, and Emily Dickinson. Harriett Beecher Stowe. Mrs. Stowe was born in New England. If she had spent her life there she might prob-Harriet ably have been an abolitionist, but Beecher could hardly have written Uncle Tom's cabin. As it happened, she lived in Cincinnati from 1832 to 1850; and it was during this period that the materials were gathered for her famous book. Before her return to New England she had had plenty of opportunity for actual contact with slav
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 10: forecast (search)
mlet at the dinner table. It is of course impossible to explain this to foreigners, and they still talk of composing, while we talk of dining. Transatlantic opinion. If the judgment of another nation is, as it has been called, that of a contemporary posterity, it is worth while to consider what sort of American literary product has excited the widest interest abroad. The greatest transatlantic successes of this kind which American novelists have yet attained-those won by Cooper and Mrs. Stowe--have come through a daring Americanism of subject, which introduced in each case a new figure to the European world,first the Indian, then the negro. Whatever the merit of the work, it was plainly the theme which conquered. Bret Harte's popularity in England is due to the same cause; and there are other instances which come readily to mind. Such successes are little likely to be repeated, for they were based on temporary situations, never to recur. The mere oddities or exceptions of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
y Channing, 3 vols., Crosby and Nichols, 1848. H. B. Adams's Life and writings of Jared Sparks, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893. George Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott, Ticknor & Reed, 1863. Mrs. J. T. Fields's Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1897. (B) Webster's Works, 6 vols., Little & Brown, 1851. Channing's Works, 1 vol., American Unitarian Association, 1886. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico, 3 vols., New York, 1843. Parkeries. 1849. Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail. 1849. George Ticknor's History of Spanish literature. 1849. Whittier's Voices of freedom. 1850. Hawthorne's Scarlet letter. 1850. Webster's Seventh of March Speech. 1851. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin. 1853. Curtis's Potiphar papers. 1854. Thoreau's Walden. 1855. Whitman's Leaves of grass. 1855. Longfellow's Hiawatha. 1857. The Dred Scott Decision. 1857. Atlantic monthly founded. 1858. Holmes's Autoc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Index. (search)
enser, Edmund, 260, 253. Spinning, Mrs. Jackson's, 264. Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 264. Spy, Cooper's, 103. Stanley, Wallace's, 72. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 153, 264. Stirrup-Cup, Hay's, 264. Story of man, Buel's, 263. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 126-130, 272. Stuart, Gilbert, 1. Supernatural and fictitious composition, Scott's, 90. Swinburne, A. C., 220. Swift, Jonathan, 67, 108. Symphony, Lanier's, 221. Tacitus, 175. Tales of a Traveller, Irving's, 86, 87. Tales, 145, 168, 179, 196. True relation of Virginia, Smith's, 7. Trumbull, John, 38, 39-41. Tupper, M. F., 228. Twain, Mark, 236, 245, 246, 247. Twice-told tales, Hawthorne's, 184, 190. Tyler, Moses Coit, 14, 38, 57. Uncle Tom's cabin, Mrs. Stowe's, 126, 127, 128, 241. Unitarianism, 110, 154. Vanished, Emily Dickinson's, 264. Van Wart, Henry, 89. Verplanck, Gulian C., 81. Vining, Miss, 80. Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell's, 164. Voices of the night, Longfellow's, 142.