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.
