Crossing boundaries: Harriet Beecher Stowe as literary celebrity and anti-slavery campaigner

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1. The genre had a resurgence after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with the appearance of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1854) and Gaskell’s North and South (1854–1855).

2. Interestingly, Dickens’ Bleak House was being serialised at this time from March 1852 to September 1853 (Dickens 1852–1853).

3. However, this may have strengthened Stowe’s standing as an ‘unofficial’ sub-diplomatic emissary between the British and American peoples. Also, the Duchess of Sutherland was known to be one of Queen Victoria’s closest intimates.

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Simon Morgan

Simon Morgan is Head of History in the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University, UK, specialising in nineteenth-century British history, with particular regard to the history of public and political culture. He is the author of A Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the 19th Century (IB Tauris, 2007).