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Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel
Uncle Tom s Cabin was published as a serial in the abolitionist newspaper
The National Era, beginning on June 5, 1851. At first, few readers followed the story, but its audience steadily grew as the drama unfolded.
“Wherever I went among the friends of the
Era, I found
Uncle Tom’s Cabin a theme for admiring remark,” journalist and social critic Grace Greenwood wrote in a travelogue published in the
Era. “[E]verywhere I went, I saw it read with pleasant smiles and irrepressible tears.’” The story was discussed in other abolitionist publications, such as Frederick Douglass’s newspaper
On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne Bruce Weber
Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex, by Katherine
Manthorne (Oakland: University
of California Press, 2020). 352 pp.,
color and b/w illus.
Art historian Katherine E. Manthorne has written a welcome addition to recent studies devoted to American women artists and cultural figures of the past two centuries. The flurry of such publications is especially noteworthy as we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, earning women the right to vote after a long struggle.