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thoughtkick · 9 months
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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citizenscreen · 9 days
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was published #OnThisDay in 1852.
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stay-close · 7 months
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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todaysdocument · 3 months
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Opinion of the Court in Stowe v. Thomas
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Equity Case FilesFile Unit: Stowe v. Thomas, Case #9 October Session 1852
Calvin E Stowe & [bracket] In CC. US. E.D. of Penn Harriet Beecher-Stowe vs In chancery F W Thomas [end bracket] Submitted on bill & answer Opinion of the Court The bill in this case alleges that Mrs Stowe is the author & proprietor of a work called, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and has obtained a copyright for the same in due form of law; that the defendant has translated into German, printed published and sold the same in newspaper & pamphlet form; [struck through] That such translation is an infringement of complainants copyright; And therefore prays an injunction account &c. The answer admits the facts stated in the bill, but denies that such translating printing publishing &c is an infringement of complainants copyright. The question raised by these pleadings, has not been decided either in England or this country in a case where it is directly involved2. Pardessus cours [bracket] In many of the states of Europe, it has been made the de droit commer subject of special legislation. In France, jurists appear Part. 2 [T?]. 1 to be divided in opinion. Pardessus is of opinion, that No 164 [end bracket] a translation is not an infringement of copyright, Renouard on the contrary argues that ^it^ is. Mr. Godson, in his work Renouard [bracket] on Patents concurs unto Pardessus, Mr Curtis in his Tom 2. Page 36. [end bracket] treatise on copyright unto Renouard In this balance of opinions among learned jurists, we must endeavor to find some ascertained principles of the common law as established by [struck through] judicial decision, on which to found our conclusion In order to decide what is an infringement of an authors rights, we must inquire, what constitutes literary property; and what is [struck through] recognized as such by the act of congress, and secured & protected [struck through] thereby. An author may be said to be the creator or inventor both of the ideas ^contained in his book^ and the combination of words to represent them. Before publication he has the exclusive possession of his invention. His dominion is perfect. [full transcription at link]
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streetsofsalem · 1 month
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"In my joy I was as a bouncing sparrow"
We are in the last week of February and I have yet to produce a post for Black History Month, so here it is!  I like to engage with historical markers and months; it keeps history “current” for me. I’ve known about two formerly enslaved men with connections to Salem for a while, but have never wrote about either Jacob Stroyer or John Andrew Jackson. Both came from South Carolina and both wrote…
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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Milestone Monday
On this day, May 20 in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in Boston by John P. Jewett. Its popularity was so great that the first edition went through many printings and sold 300,000 by the end of the year in the U.S. alone (1.5 million were sold in Britain in the first year). Jewett had presses in operation 24 hours a day to keep up with demand.
Our copy is one of the later printings for that year, the 285th thousand, and was published in one volume without the six full-page illustrations by Hammatt Billings engraved for the first printing. In late 1851, Jewett, along with partners Proctor and Worthington, formed a second publishing business in Cleveland, which took on the responsibility of selling Uncle Tom's Cabin in the west, which is reflected on the title page of our printing. Our particular printing was also issued later and bound with the 1853 A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
We also hold the first illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published by Jewett in 1853 with many illustrations by Billings engraved by Baker and Smith, and we show some of those illustrations here as well.
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macrolit · 1 year
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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mkeblr · 9 months
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"Nothing of tragedy can be written, can be spoken, can be conceived, that equals the frightful reality of scenes daily and hourly acting on our shores, beneath the shadow of American law."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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ballumville · 9 months
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'The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.' 💔
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nightlyquotes · 2 years
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom's cabin, or Slave Life in America by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853.
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citizenscreen · 1 year
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published #OnThisDay in 1852.
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ma-pi-ma · 2 years
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C'è una gran quantità di cose belle, che Dio ci può concedere due volte; ma la mamma è cosa tanto grande, che ce la dà una volta sola.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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princesssarisa · 2 years
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I'm glad I read Uncle Tom's Cabin before I read Little Women.
Most of Louisa May Alcott's generation would have, of course – or even if they hadn't read the novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin, they would have seen one of the countless popular stage plays of it. But today, of course, most people read Little Women first, or Little Women only. So most modern readers tend to see Beth as just a simple, straightforward example (whether touching or nauseating) of an angelic, doomed young girl, too pure for this world, like so many others in 19th century fiction.
Personally, I'm glad I met little Eva before I met Beth. Seeing how super-angelic, pure, and sparkling a figure Eva is, and reading the melodramatic religious glory of her deathbed scene, made me appreciate Alcott's effort to make Beth more human. Unlike Eva, Beth isn't described as being physically beautiful; she also has slight flaws amid her sweetness, and has growth of her own (e.g. overcoming her fear of old Mr. Laurence and befriending him) rather than only existing to teach goodness to others by her saintly example; she doesn't supernaturally foretell her own death or have visions of heaven; she struggles with her physical pain and with depression during her final illness; Alcott's narrative voice is affectionate toward her, but doesn't glorify her as a literal angel on earth; and her eventual death scene is short, quiet, and understated, not an operatic spectacle. Alcott didn't subvert the popular archetype of the saintly dying girl, but she did handle it more realistically (helped, of course, by the fact that she modeled Beth after her very real sister). The sentence that precedes Beth's death, "Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances..." feels like a specific reference to Eva's then-iconic death, with her departing vision of "love – joy – peace!"
It's too bad that for most readers, Beth is the first example of the "saintly dying 19th century girl" archetype they meet, so too many view her as just a cardboard example of that archetype, instead of the more humanized version she really is compared to earlier examples in other books.
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meikebruhns · 1 year
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. “
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
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