Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — A FAMOUS WRITER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A FAMOUS WRITER.

The Authoress of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” Rapidly Failing ia Health. The famous authoress of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, although still able to go about her Connecticut home aud take short walks for exercise, is failing rapidly in health and strength. She is the daughter of Lyman Beet her, and was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 15, 1811. She was interested and associated with her sister Catherine in the labors of a school at Hartford in 1827, afterward removing to Walnut Hill, near Cincinnati. She was married in 1832 to the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe,. D. D. Mis.

Siowe wrote several tales and sketches, which were afterward collected under the title of the “May Flower,” 1849. In 1850 she contributed to the National Era, au anti-slavery paper published at Washington, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” as a serial. This story followed shortly afterward (Jn 1852) in book form, and met with m'erited success, 313,000 copies being sold in the United States within the short space of three years and a half, nnd in all, over half a million copies, including a German edition. In Great Britain its sale was enormous. It has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Welch, Russian, Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese; there were fourteen different German,and four different French versions, and it has been dramatized in various forms. Mrs. Stowe subsequently published “A Peep Into Uncle Tom’s Cabin, for Children,” 1853; “A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” giving the original facts and statements on which that work was based, 1853; and “The Cbristiah Slave,” a drama founded upon Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 1855. “Uncle Sam’s Emancipation” was issued in 1853, nnd in the same year she visited Europe, publishing in the year following “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.” A little work entitled “Geography for My Children” was published in 1855, and the next year appeared her second anti-slavery novel, “Dred, a Tale of the Dismal Swamp,” republished in 1859 under the title of “Nina Gordon.” In subsequent works Mrs. Stowe has delineated the domestic life of New England of fifty or one hundred years ago. Her other published works are: “Our Charley arid What to Do with Him,” 1859; “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,” 1862; “Agnes of Sorrento,” 1863; “The Ravages of a Carpet,” “Religious Poems,” “Stories About Our Dogs,” “Little Foxes,” “Queer Little People, ,r “The Chimney Corner,” “Men of Our Times,” “My Wife and I,” “A Dog’s Mission,” eto. Mrs. Stowe’s home is in Hartford, Conn., but. she passes much of her time in Florida,where she possesses an extensive orange plantation.