DEATH OF MRS BEECHER STOWE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2210, 9 July 1896, Page 17

DEATH OF MRS BEECHER STOWE.

New Yobk, July 1. The death is announced of Mrs Besoher Stowe.

Mrs Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, daughter of the late Lyman Besoher, and sister of the late Henry W*rd Beecher, was born at Litohfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1812. She was associated with her sister Catherine in the labours of a school at Hartford in 1827, and afterwards removed to Walnut Hill, near Cincinnati, and was married in 1636 to the Rev. Calvin B. Stowe, D.D. Mrs Stowe wrote several tales and sketches, which were afterwards collected under the title of ♦•The May Flower." In 1851-52 she contributed to the " National Era," an anti-slavery paper published in Washington, "Uncle Tom's Cabin "as a serial. This was published in book form in 1852, and met with great success ; nearly 500,000 oopies were sold in the United States within five yew 6of its publication, and in Great Britain also its sale was enormous. It has been translated into, more than 20 languages, including Russian, Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese ; there were 14 different German and four different French versions, and ib was dramatised in various forms. Mrs Stowe subsequently published "A Peep into Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children," ••A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (giving the original facts and statements on which that work was based), and " The Christian Slave," a drama founded upon " Uncle Tom's Cabin." She visited Europe in 1853, and in 1854 published " Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands." In 1856 appeared her second anti-davery 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 50 or 100 years ago. These include from between 20 nnd 30 stories, such as "The Minister's Wooing," "Queer Little People," "Oldtown Folks," &c. In September 1869 Mrs Stowe contributed to the " Atlantic Monthly" and w Macmillan's Magazine" an 'article entitled "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life." Thiß article evoked a storm of indignant literary criticism whioh was by no means allayed by the publication in 1870 of her work entitled " Lady Byron Vindicated." Mrs Stowe's health for some years has been very precarious. She resided at Hartford, Conn., with her son, the Rev. Charles E. Stows, who in 1889 published "A Life of Harriet Beeoher Stowe, compiled from her Letters and Journals."— Men and Women of the Time.