Stowe
Stowe names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Stowe sto, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
sto, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896), an American novelist. She was born at Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sister of Henry Ward Beecher and the daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher, a Congregational clergyman, later the president of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati. In 1836 she married Calvin E. Stowe, professor of Hebrew at Lane, and later the occupant of a similar chair at Andover Theological Seminary. As early as 1843, Mrs. Stowe published the Mayflower, a volume of Pilgrim tales previously contributed to periodicals. During 1851-1852, she contributed Uncle Tom's Cabin, a tale of negro slavery, to the pages of the National Era of Washington, D. C. It attracted ordinary notice as a serial, but, on republication in book form, it became the most widely and generally read book of the quarter century. Half a million copies were sold in the United States inside of five years. The sales in Great Britain were on a corresponding scale. It was translated into no less than nineteen foreign languages. Slaveholders were furious, claiming that the evils of slavery, the whipping of slaves, the parting of families, and the helplessness of young negro women were exaggerated beyond all reason. Unquestionably, the tale stirred up anti-slavery sentiment and may be regarded as a powerful though indirect cause of the Civil War. No other publication of the anti-slavery period of agitation had so great an influence in convincing political leaders that a free North and a slave South could not get on under one government. Uncle Tom's Cabin has been dramatized and is still a favorite theme on the stage. Of American plays, it competes with Rip Van Winkle in popularity. Nina Gordon, or Dred, a tale of the Dismal Swamp , a second anti-slavery novel, considered by many a better piece of literary work, had only fair success. Mrs. Stowe then betook herself to her natural field, the writing of domestic New England tales. Named in order of appearance, the chief titles are The Minister's Wooing, The Pearl of Orr's Island, Old Town Folks, Pink and White Tyranny, My Wife and I. In 1853 Mrs. Stowe went abroad and, on returning, published a volume of travel. In 1869 she dipped unfortunately into the domestic relations of Lady Byron and her unfaithful, poetic husband. Mrs. Stowe died at Hartford, Connecticut, July 1, 1896. See Beecher ; Anti-Slavery Party Strabo (63 B. C.-24 A. D.), a noted Greek geographer. The name is akin to strabismus and means squint-eyed. Strabo traveled extensively throughout the part of the world then known. He wrote a treatise on geography in seventeen books. Two books were devoted to a general introduction summarizing the knowledge of previous writers. He describes the earth as a globe standing still in the center of the universe. The moon, sun, and stars revolve about it. The habitable portion is a belt extending from Ireland to Ceylon, India. Outside of these limits, the world, according to Strabo, was inhabited by monsters. Eight books were devoted to a description of Europe, six books to Asia, and one book to Egypt and Lydia. See Ptolemy ; Geography ; Globe
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER, an American novelist, daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811; was educated at Litchfield Academy and at the school of her sister Catherine in Hartford; at the age of 14 she began teaching; in 1832 removed to Cincinnati, O. In 1836 she was married to Prof. Calvin Ellis Stowe; in 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Me., and later to Andover, Mass.; Mass.; in 1864 she settled in Hartford, Conn., where she spent the remainder of her life. She published: "The Mayflower; or Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the Descendants of the Pilgrims" (1843); "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly" (1852); "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853); "Uncle Tom's Emancipation" (1853); "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands" (1854); "The Mayflower, and Miscellaneous Writings" (1855); "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" (1856); "Our Charley and What to Do with Him" (1858); "The Minister's Wooing" (1859); "The Pearl of Orr's Island" (1862); "Agnes of Sorrento" (1862); "House and Home Papers" (1864); "Stories about our Boys" (1865); "Religious Poems" (1867); "Queer Little People" (1867); "The Chimney Corner" (1868); "Oldtown Folks" (1869); with Catherine E. Beecher; "Lady Byron Vindicated" (1870); "Little Pussy Willow" (1870); "Pink and White Tyranny" (1871); "Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories" (1871); "My Wife and I" (1871); "Palmetto Leaves" (1873); "Woman in Sacred History" (1873); "We and our Neighbors" (1875); "Deacon Pitkin's Farm, and Christ's Christmas Presents" (1875); "Footsteps of the Master" (1876); "Captain Kidd's Money, and Other Stories" (1876); "The Ghost in the Mill, and Other Stories" (1876); "Poganuc People" (1878); "A Dog's Mission" (1881); etc. Her best known work, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (suggested by the life of Josiah Henson) has been translated into many languages, its sale exceeding that of any previous work of English fiction. She died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896.
Stowe CALVIN ELLIS, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CALVIN ELLIS, an American educator; born in Natick, Mass., April 6, 1802; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1824, at Andover Seminary in 1828; and edited the Boston "Recorder" in 1829-1830. He was Professor of Greek at Dartmouth College in 1830-1832, and of Sacred Literature in Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, O., in 1833-1835. He married Harriet Elizabeth Beecher in January, 1836, and went to Europe to examine the public school systems. He was professor at Bowdoin in 1850; and at Andover in 1852-1864. His publications include a translation of Jahn's "Hebrew Commonwealth" (1829); "Lectures on the Poetry of the Hebrews" (1829); "Report on Elementary Education in Europe"; "Introduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible" (1835); and "Origin and History of the Books of the Bible" (1867); also addresses and pamphlets. He died in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 22, 1886.
Stowe LYMAN BEECHER, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LYMAN BEECHER, an American writer, born at Saco, Maine, in 1880. He was educated at Harvard. From 1909 to 1910 he was assistant editor of the "Circle Magazine"; from 1910 to 1913 secretary and vice-chairman of the Public Service Commission of New York; from 1913 to 1915 secretary of the National Association of Junior Republics; from 1915 to 1918 secretary of the Department of Public Charities, New York City. Besides contributing articles to many magazines and lecturing on social, political, and educational subjects, he was the co-author of "Harriet Beecher Stowe-Story of Her Life" (1912); "Citizens Made and Remade" (1912); "Booker T. Washington" (1916); "The Inside Story of Austro-German Intrigue" (1919).
Stowe CHARLES EDWARD, an American lecturer and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES EDWARD, an American lecturer and writer, born at Brunswick, Maine, in 1850. He was a son of Harriet Beecher Stowe (q. v.) and was educated at Harvard and the Universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Heidelberg. After following the sea for four years, he studied abroad and upon his return was ordained a Congregational minister. He devoted his time to lecturing and wrote "Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1889); "Lives of Distinguished Americans" (1889); "Harriet Beecher Stowe The Story of Her Life" (with L. B. Stowe, 1912).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's Encyclopedia in 1910 could report that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was "still a favorite theme on the stage," rivalling Rip Van Winkle; the touring "Tom shows" that had played continuously since the 1850s faded away in the first half of the 20th century, and by 1949 James Baldwin's essay "Everybody's Protest Novel" had made the book a byword for sentimental protest fiction, with "Uncle Tom" itself turned into an insult. The novel's standing as history has held up better than its standing as art: it is now read chiefly in courses on American literature and slavery, and few scholars would quarrel with Aiton's judgment that it was "a powerful though indirect cause of the Civil War." Aiton also thought Stowe had "dipped unfortunately" into the Byron marriage in 1869, but her charge that Byron had a sexual relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh is now generally credited by biographers. Stowe's last home in Hartford, where she died in 1896, has been a museum since the mid-20th century and operates today as the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
Written for this edition, 2026.