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Há 1 dia · Harriet Beecher Stowe House "Cincinnati’s Lost Founders: The Clark & Fossett Families" exhibit is on display at the Walnut Hills Branch Library until July 31. By: Michael Coker.
Há 5 dias · Learn about the history and significance of slave narratives, the autobiographical accounts of fugitive or former slaves, in American literature and culture. Explore the works of Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and others.
Há 4 dias · Twice, she asked Harriet Beecher Stowe for an endorsement, and was rebuffed. When “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” was finally published in 1861, in Boston, the white editor revised it heavily, and cut a closing tribute to the radical abolitionist John Brown. At the end of her book, Harriet describes John’s departure for California.
Há 1 dia · Among Robb’s myriad victims was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Mrs. Stowe ordered some “mammoth gourd seeds” from Robb to plant at her winter home in Florida. Robb claimed these seeds yielded gigantic gourds that could be used as washtubs.
Há 1 dia · The work of female American writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Jean Webster was also translated as juvenile literature for Japanese children. Thus, American culture and literature significantly influenced the Japanese shojo culture. Nobuko Yoshiya, a well-known Japanese author of so-called girls’ novels, stated that ...
Há 4 dias · Her siblings included the famous writer Harriet Beecher Stowe and clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher, further embedding her in a family deeply involved in social and religious reform. Beecher's educational journey began at home, where she was self-taught in subjects traditionally reserved for men, such as math, Latin, and philosophy.
Há 4 dias · In this Behind the Bookcase tour, we will look closely at the evolution of the Gothic, birthed in 18 th Century Europe, then developed in such works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Americanized by writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, polished and truly Southernized by Ambrose Bierce and William Faulkner, and masterfully modernized by Toni Morrison.
