Harriet Beecher Stowe

Artist: George Richmond Engraver: J.C. Buttre.

Image Size: approx. 4.25 by 5.50 inches ; Overall Size : 10 by 6.25 inches.
This is a genuine antique engraved portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe published in an American literary and art journal in 1858. It is in excellent condition and shows a rare view of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The print has been cleaned and is free of age toning and foxing spots. This is not a modern reproduction or reprint. It is a vintage steel engraving, over 143 years old and guaranteed to be as described.

Item # 1595  Price $35

Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine: her earliest publication was a geography for children, issued under her sister's name in 1833. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's
books, as well as adult novels. She met and corresponded with people as varied as Lady Byron, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and George Eliot. She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Connecticut. While she wrote at least ten adult novels, Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first, Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852). Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial.