Harriet Beecher Stowe (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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In 1843, Harriet Beecher Stowe gathered a number of her sketches and stories into a volume called The Mayflower: Or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters of the Descendants of the Pilgrims (1843). For forty years thereafter, she published short fiction and miscellaneous essays in magazines. In A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853), she assembled a mass of sources and analogues for the characters and incidents of her most famous novel. Her 1869 The Atlantic Monthly article “The True Story of Lady Byron’s Life” and a subsequent...
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