Harriet Beecher Stowe - Writings

Quotes from Stowe, from your About Guide to Women's History.

A letter to her husband with details of the "dark side of domestic life" -- "I am sick of the smell of sour milk, and sour meat, and sour everything...."

Early poem by Stowe. Originally published in The Christian Keepsake, and Missionary Annual, for 1849.

Sad excerpts from several letters, detailing their son Charley's illness and death in a cholera epidemic.

The first installment was published June 5, 1851, in National Era. This etext version of the second edition is at the University of Virginia.

Alternate locations for the Gutenberg text version.

Color illustrations of many editions; the Second Edition now includes a link to an etext rendition.

The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One: another response to the Fugitive Slave Act, published in New York Evangelist, June 12 and June 19, 1851

In which she tells the origin of her "deep compassion for ... mothers who are separated from their children."

Reproduction of a letter from Stowe to famed abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, discussing Frederick Douglass.

Stowe's "prickly" best-seller, explaining and defending the original book.

Dramatic readings written by Stowe, based on Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Another anti-slavery novel by Stowe, depicted at this University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee site with just a snippet of the appendix.

Originally printed in The Atlantic Monthly, two stellar women of abolition meet, and talk of slavery, religion and women's rights.

Stowe's discussion of home life in America -- for instance, a discussion of "help" in New England versus "servants" in Europe versus slavery in the South. Page images.

Stowe holds up as inspiration many Biblical women, including essays of her own and artwork and poems by others.

Written with her sister Catherine E. Beecher. A reproduction of the title page and the facing illustration, plus a little information on the Beecher sisters.

Page vi is Stowe's preface to this tell-all on Mormonism which she hoped would help end polygamy -- to her, another form of slavery.

A detailed survey of the post-Civil War work by the churches in educating freedmen.