Harriet Beecher Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly (1852)
  2. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1855)
  3. Our Charley – And What to Do with Him (1858)
  4. The Minister’s Wooing (1859)
  5. Agnes of Sorrento (1862)
  6. The Pearl of Orr’s Island (1862)
  7. House and Home Papers (1864)
  8. The Chimney Corner, by Christopher Crowfield (1864)
  9. Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness (1866)
  10. Oldtown Folks (1869)
  11. Lady Byron Vindicated (1870)
  12. Little Pussy Willow (1870)
  13. Pink and White Tyranny (1871)
  14. My Wife And I (1871)
  15. Palmetto Leaves (1873)
  16. We and Our Neighbors or the Records of an Unfashionable Street (1875)
  17. Footsteps of the Master (1876)
  18. Poganuc People (1878)
  19. A Dog’s Mission (1881)
  20. Oldtown Folks, Volume 1 (1966)
  21. Oldtown Folks, Volume 2 (1966)
  22. Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life (1998)
  23. The First Christmas of New England (2002)
  24. The Christian Slave (2004)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Mayflower Or Sketches Of Scenes And Characters Among The Descendants Of The Pilgrim (2004)
  2. The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge (2014)
  3. The History of Tip-Top (2014)
  4. The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House (2014)
  5. Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket (2014)
  6. Hum, the Son of Buz (2014)
  7. Hen that Hatched Ducks (2014)
  8. Mother Magpie’s Mischief (2014)
  9. The Squirrels That Live in a House (2014)
  10. Our Country Neighbours (2014)
  11. A Young Inventor’s Pluck (2015)
  12. Slavery Past and Present (2015)
  13. The Scene in Jerusalem and the Sabbath (2015)
  14. The Education of Freedmen (2018)
  15. Our Charley (2018)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. David and His Throne (1855)
  2. Golden Fruit in Silver Baskets (1859)
  3. Religious Poems (1865)
  4. Betty’s Bright Idea (1875)
  5. Uncle Sam’s Emancipation; Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline, And Other Sketches (1953)
  6. Regional Sketches (1972)
  7. The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1992)
  8. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1993)
  9. Stories and Sketches for the Young (2003)
  10. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth (2010)
  11. Religious Studies (2015)
  12. The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, with Biographical Introductions, Portraits, and Other Illustrations, Volume 2 (2016)
  13. Light After Darkness (2016)
  14. Oldtown Fireside Stories (2019)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853)
  2. Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands (1854)
  3. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands – Vol. 2 (1854)
  4. A New Geography for Children (1855)
  5. A Reply to the Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland, to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America (1863)
  6. Men of Our Times (1868)
  7. The American Woman’s home, or, Principles of Domestic Science (1869)
  8. The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-Made Men (1872)
  9. Woman in Sacred History (1873)
  10. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, compiled from her letters and journals (1889)
  11. The Papers of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1977)
  12. Our Famous Women (2015)
  13. Antislavery Recollections (2015)
  14. Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2015)
  15. Tales and Sketches of New England Life (2015)
  16. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016)
  17. The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-Made Men, Volume 2 (2016)
  18. Tell It All (2016)

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Harriet Beecher Books Overview

Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly

In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible. It was quickly translated into thirty seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had a far reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston; original illustrations are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. Backgrounds and Contexts includes a wealth of historical material relevant to slavery and abolitionism. Among the documents presented are Josiah Henson’s 1849 slave narrative named by Stowe as one of the sources for the novel; Solomon Northup’s eyewitness account of an 1841 slave auction; Harriet Jacobs’s narrative of her life as a fifteen year old slave; two epistolary accounts by ex slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown, which document events in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; two crucial excerpts from Stowe’s Key to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin ‘ which provide the real life basis for characters and events in the novel; and accounts of Tom Shows and the anti Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel’s publication. Illustrative material includes slave advertiseme*nts, runaway slave posters, and illustrations for the first British edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Britain’s premier illustrator, George Cruikshank, as well as popular illustrations from American editions of the novel. Criticism is arranged under two headings. ‘Nineteenth Century Reviews and Reception’ includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop both from Frederick Douglass’ Paper, George F. Holmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. Twentieth Century Criticism collects five of the best critical as*sessments of the novel’s continuing impact on American society. With the exception of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking essay, ‘Everybody’s Protest Novel,’ the critical essays date from the years 1985 to 1992. Jane P. Tompkins investigates why the text was excluded from the canon for most of the twentieth century. Robert S. Levine provides an overview of the text’s popular reception and influence since publication, including current critical schools and critics. Hortense J. Spillers takes a textual/linguistic view in her comparison between Stowe and Ishmael Reed as ‘impression points in the literary imagination of slavery.’ And Christina Zwarg traces the influence Stowe’s feminism had on her treatment of fatherhood and its effect on the home. A Chronology of Stowe’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included. .

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred 1856, Stowe attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective.

Through the compelling stories of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, a black revolutionary, Stowe brings to life conflicting beliefs about race, the institution of slavery, and the possibilities of violent resistance. Probing the political and spiritual goals that fuel Dred’s rebellion, Stowe creates a figure far different from the acquiescent Christian martyr Uncle Tom.

In his introduction to the novel, Robert S. Levine outlines the contemporary antislavery debates in which Stowe had become deeply involved before and during her writing of Dred. In addition to its significance in literary history, the novel remains relevant, Levine argues, to present discussions of cross racial perspectives.

Our Charley – And What to Do with Him

CONTENTS . OUR CHARLEY…



. 7 WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH OUR CHARLEY 17 TRE HAPPY CmLD…


. . 2 7 LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF A FAIRY…
4 0 UNCLX JERRYS DREAM…


61 TAKE CARE OF THE HOOK…
. . 79 FAIRY TALES…



85 A TALK ABOUT BIRDS…


94 OUR CHARLEY. WHEN th e blaze of the wood fire flickers up and down in our snug evening parlor, there dances upon the wall a little shadow with a pug nose, a domestic household shadow a busy shadow a little resb less specimen of perpetual motion, and the owner thereof is a Oza Oharley. Now, we should not write about him and his ways, if he were strictly a peculiar and individual existence of our own home circle but it is not so. Our Charley exists in a thousand, nay, a million fam ilies he has existed in millions in all tirne back his name is variously rendered in a11 the tongues of the earth nay, there are a thousand synonyines for him in English for indisputably our . No Inan is inore pressed with business, and needs more prudence, energy, tact, and courage to carry out his schemes, in face of all the opposing circumstances that grown people collstailtly throw in his way. Has he not ships to build and to sail and has he not vast cngi ieerings to make ponds and docks in every puddle or brook, where they shall lie at an chor Is not his pocket stuffed with material for sails a. nd cordage And yet, like n Inan of the world as hc is, all t, his does not content him, but he must own railroad stock too. If he lives vhere a steq. rn vliistle has vibrated, it has amkened an unquiet yearning within him, and some day hc harnesses all the chairs into a train, and makes a locoinotive of your work table and a steam whistle of himself He inspects toy shop vindows, gets up flirtations with benevolent shop . men and when he gets his mouth close to papas ear, reveals to him how Mr. Soand so has a locomotive that will mind up and go done so cheap too cant pa pn, get it f hrim And so papa all papas do goes soberly down and buys it, though he knows it will be broken in a week. Then what raptures The dear locomotive the darling black chimney sleeps under his pillow that he may feel of it in the night, and be sure when he first wakes that the joy is not evaporated. He bores every body to death with it as artlessly as grown people do with their hobbies but at last the ardor runs out…

The Minister’s Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s domestic comedy is a powerful examination of slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.

First published in 1859, and set in eighteenth century Newport, Rhode Island, The Minister’s Wooing is a historical novel and domestic comedy that satirizes Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and moral integrity while critiquing its rigid theology. Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery. The pious Mary admires him but is also in love with the passionate but skeptical James Marvyn who, hungry for adventure, joins the crew of a ship setting sail for exotic destinations. When James is presumed lost at sea, Mary fears for his soul, and consents to marry the good Doctor. With important insights on slavery, history, and gender, as well as characters based on historical figures, The Minister’s Wooing is, as Susan Harris notes in her Introduction, ‘an historical novel, like Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter or Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie or A New England Tale; it is an attempt through fiction to create a moral, intellectual, and affective history for New England.’

Agnes of Sorrento

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1872 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London.

The Pearl of Orr’s Island

The rural tranquillity of the lonely, pine girthed shores of the Maine coast is the setting for this beautiful novel of conflicting aspirations written by one of the most prolific and influential writers in American history. Here is the heartwarming story of a young girl’s struggle to belong and fit in, in the face of adversity, and of her upbringing among strong women, grumpy fishermen, annoying gossips, sea captains, and the dreamlike, temptestuous landscape of Orr’s Island. The Pearl of Orr’s Island is one of the forgotten but not lost masterpieces of American literature. It reflects Harriet Beecher Stowe’s awareness of the complexity of small town society, her commitment to realism, and her fluency in the local language.

Oldtown Folks

Oldtown Folks. 1869, PREFACE. WTLE READER, It is customary to omit pre Gf,ces . I beg you to make an exception in my par ticular case I have something I really want to say. I have an object in tlris book, more than the mere telling of a story, and you can always judge of a book better if you compare it with the authors object. My object is to interpret to the world the New England life and character in that particular time of its history wlich may be called the seminal period. I would endearor to show you New England in its seed bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sproub ing germs into the great trees of to day. New England has been to these United States wlat the Dorian hive was to Greece. It has always been a capital country to emigrate from, and North, South, East, and We have been populated largely from New England, so that the seed bed of New England was the seed bed of this great American Republic, and of all that is likely to come of it. New England people cannot be thus interpreted witli out calling into view many grave considerations and necessitating some serious thinking. In doing tliis work, I hare tried to make my mind as still and passive as a looking glass, or a mountain lake, and then to give you merely the images reflected there. I desire that you ould see the characteristic persons of those times, and hear them talk and some times I have taken an authors liberty of explaining their characters to you, and telling you why they talked and lived as they did. My studies for this object have been Pre Raphaelite, taken from real characters, real scenes, and real incidents. And some of those things in the story which may appear most romantic and like fiction are simple renderings and applications of facts. Any one who may be curious enough to consult Rev. Elias Nasons book, called Sir Charles Henry Frankland, or Boston in the Colonial Times, will there see a full description of the old manor house which in this story is called the Dench House. It was by that name I always heard it spoken of in my boyhood. In portraying tthe various characters which I have in troduced, I have tried to maintain the part simply of a sympathetic spectator. I propose neither to teach nor preach through them, any farther than any spectator of life is preached to by what he sees of the workings of human nature around him. Though Calvinist, Arminian, High Church Episcopa lian, sceptic, and simple believer all speak in their turn, I merely listen, and endeavor to understand and faith fully represent the inner life of each. I myself am but the observer and reporter, seeing much, doubting much, questioning much, and believing with all my heart in only a very few things. And so I take my leave of you. HORACE HOLYOKE. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAG OLDTOW AND THE MISTER . 1 CHAPTER 11. MY FATHER . . 11 CHAPTER 111. MY GRANDNOTHER . . 18 CHAPTER IV. THE VILLAGE DO NOTHING . 28 CHAPTER V. THE OLD MEETING HOUSE . . 39 CHAPTER VI. . FIRE LIGHT TALKS IN MY GRANDMOTHERS KITCHEN . . 61 CHAPTER VII. OLD CRAB SMITH . . 85 CHAPTER VIII. MISS ASPHYXIA . . 97 TRRYS CHAPTER IX. FIRST DAYS WORK . . 109 CHAPTER X. MISS ASPHYXIAS SYSTEJ . CONTENTS. CHAPTER XI. THE. CRISIS . . 128 CHAPTER XII. THE LIONS MOTH SHUT . . 134 CHAPTER XIII. THE EMPTY BIRDS NEST . . 141 CHAPTER XIV. THE DAY m FAIRY LAND . . 146 CHAPTER XV. THE OLD MANOR HOUSE…
159 CHAPTER XVI. Snr LAWSOXS DISCOVERIES . 169 CHAPTER XVII. THE VISIT TO THE HAUNTED HOUSE . . 179 CHAPTER XVIII. TINAS ADOPTION . . 198 CHAPTER XIX. BIISS MEHITABLES LETTER, . . 212 AND THE REPLY, GIVING FURTHER HINTS OF THE STORY CHAPTER XX…

Pink and White Tyranny

My Dear Reader, This story is not to be a novel, as the world understands the word; and we tell you so beforehand, lest you be in ill humor by not finding what you expected. For if you have been told that your dinner is to be salmon and green peas, and made up your mind to that bill of fare, and then, on coming to the table, find that it is beefsteak and tomatoes, you may be out of sorts; _not_ because beefsteak and tomatoes are not respectable viands, but because they are not what you have made up your mind to enjoy. Now, a novel, in our days, is a three story affair, a complicated, complex, multiform composition, requiring no end of scenery and _dramatis personae,_ and plot and plan, together with trapdoors, pit falls, wonderful escapes and thrilling dangers; and the scenes transport one all over the earth, to England, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Kamchatka. But this is a little commonplace history, all about one man and one woman, living straight along in one little prosaic town in New England. It is, moreover, a story with a moral; and for fear that you shouldn’t find out exactly what the moral is, we shall adopt the plan of the painter who wrote under his pictures, ‘This is a bear,’ and ‘This is a turtle dove.’ We shall tell you in the proper time succinctly just what the moral is, and send you off edified as if you had been hearing a sermon. So please to call this little sketch a parable, and wait for the exposition thereof. HBS

My Wife And I

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Palmetto Leaves

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Footsteps of the Master

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Poganuc People

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The First Christmas of New England

Mrs. Stowe, the most popular woman author writing in America during the 19th century, wrote this classic story of America’s first Christmas and published it in a collection of other stories. It is a Christmas story set in Massachusetts at the time of the pilgrims by the well known author of Uncle Tom s Cabin. Never before published by itself, this essay deserves to stand with other important and memorable classic Christmas stories, evoking the joy and meaning of Christmas in America. ‘Let us look into the magic mirror of the past and see this harbor of Cape Cod on the morning of the 11th of November, in the year of our Lord 1620, as described to us in the simple words of the pilgrims.’

The Christian Slave

Dramatization of Uncle Tom’s Cabin that Ms. Stowe prepared.

The Mayflower Or Sketches Of Scenes And Characters Among The Descendants Of The Pilgrim

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David and His Throne

1855. However advanced the world may be in intelligence and morals, it certainly has not reached the point where its judgment in these matters is more to be trusted than that of Jesus Christ; and, those who practically throw away the Old Testament as worthless, being themselves to a distinct issue with His teaching. We must remember that it was the Old Testament which was the Bible of Jesus. The volume before us is one of a series designed to interest young readers in the study of the Old Testament. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

Religious Poems

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE OTHER WORLD. T T lies around us like a cloud, A world we do not see ; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be. Its gentle breezes fan our cheek ; Amid our worldly cares, Its gentle voices whisper love, And mingle with our prayers. Sweet hearts around us throb and beat, Sweet helping hands are stirred, And palpitates the veil between With breathings almost heard. The silence, awful, sweet, and calm, They have no power to break ; For mortal words are not for them To utter or partake. So thin, so soft, so sweet, they glide, So near to press they seem, , They lull us gently to our rest, They melt into our dream. And in the hush of rest they bring ‘Tis easy now to see How lovely and how sweet a pass The hour of death may be ; To close the eye, and close the ear, Wrapped in a trance of bliss, And, gently drawn in loving arms, To swoon to that from this, The Other World. 21 Scarce knowing if we wake or sleep, Scarce asking where we are, To feel all evil sink away, All sorrow and all care. Sweet souls around us ! watch us still ; Press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, With gentle helpings glide. Let death between us be as naught, A dried and vanished stream ; Your joy be the reality, Our suffering life the dream. MARY AT THE CROSS. ‘Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother.’ WONDROUS mother! since the dawn of Was ever love, was ever grief, like thine ? O highly favored in thy joy’s deep flow, And favored, even in this, thy bitterest woe! Poor was that home in simple Nazareth Where, fairly growing, like some silent flower, Last of a kingly race, unknown and lowly, O desert lily, passed thy childhood’s hour. The world…

Betty’s Bright Idea

Three short stories set in middle America by the American author and abolitionist famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Regional Sketches

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Stories and Sketches for the Young

CONTENTS Queer Little People The Hen that Hatched Ducks The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge The History of Tip Top Miss Katy did and Miss Cricket Mother Magpie’s Mischief The Squirrels that Lived in a House Hum, the Son of Buz Our Country Neighbors Our Dogs Dogs and Cats Aunt Esther’s Rules Aunt Esther’s Stories Sir Walter Scott and His Dogs Country Neighbors Again The Diverting History of Little Whiskey Little Pussy Willow The Minister’s Watermelons A Dog’s Mission Lulu’s Pupil The Daisy’s First Winter Our Charley and the Stories Told Him Little Captain Trott Christmas; or, The Good Fairy Little Fred, the Canal Boy

The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth

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Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe 1811 1896 was an American author and abolitionist, famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, first published in 1852. Stowe wrote the novel as an angry response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act, which punished those who aided runaway slaves and diminished the rights of fugitives as well as freed slaves. It was the best selling novel of the 19th century and the second best selling book of the century after the Bible and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States prior to the American Civil War. When Stowe met Abraham Lincoln in 1862 during the Civil War, he reportedly greeted her with, ‘So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war! ‘ Other works include: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands 1854, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp 1856, The Minister’s Wooing 1859, Lady Byron Vindicated 1870 and Pink and White Tyranny 1871. A biography, Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, written by her son, Charles Edward Stowe, was published in 1889.

Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands

Following the remarkable success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe made three tours to England and Europe, which inspired the two volume set, Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands. Both volumes are a series of letters, some written on the spot some after the author’s return home of impressions as they arose, of her most agreeable visits to England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium during the first half of the nineteenth century. Volume I contains delightful letters from Stowe’s travels throughout Liverpool, Lancashire, Dumbarton Castle, Aberdeen, Warwick, Birmingham including an extensive assortment of letters from London.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands – Vol. 2

If there be characters and scenes that seem drawn with too bright a pencil, the reader will consider that, after all, there are many worse sins than a disposition to think and speak well of one’s neighbors. Following the great success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe made three tours to England and Europe, which inspired Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, a two volume work. The books are a series of letters, some written on the spot, some after the author’s return home, of impressions as they arose, of her most agreeable visits to England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium during the first half of the 19th century. They are truly what its name denotes, ‘Sunny Memories.’ HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811 1896 was an American writer best known for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which helped frame slavery as a moral issue. Born in Connecticut, this daughter of a Congregationalist minister later moved to Cincinnati where she married, began writing, and had seven children. All told, Stowe wrote more than two dozen books, both fiction and non fiction.

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