Harriet Stowe's Filthy Story: Lord Byron Set Afloat

Prospects ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 373-384
Author(s):  
Jean Willoughby Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Literary Reputation ◽  
Literary Journal

In the September, 1869, issue of theAtlantic Monthly, Harriet Beecher Stowe published an article in which she claimed that Lord Byron, the poet, had committed incest with his half-sister. These charges had been made before and are generally accepted by Byron biographers today, but the publication of such a claim in a respectable literary journal in 1869 touched an exposed nerve of American consciousness. For weeks, Harriet Stowe was attacked in newspapers throughout the country as a liar and a fool who had sought money and notoriety by pandering to obscene and depraved tastes. The article was termed “startling in accusation, barren in proof, inaccurate in dates, infelicitous in style.” The author's literary reputation plummeted, and theAtlantic Monthlylost more than a third of its subscribers in a single year. The moral sensibilities of thousands of Americans had been outraged; this violation of a taboo unleashed resentments, which had apparently been smoldering since the end of the Civil War, against Stowe, the Beecher family, and the liberal causes with which both were identified.

Bad Books/Bad Blood: Feminism, Eugenics, and Culture in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated

Prospects ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 147-169
Author(s):  
M. Lynn Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
True Story ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of

In September 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe published “The True Story of Lady Byron's Life” in the Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine. Public outcry was so great that less than a year later she published Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, From Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time. This was a four-hundred-page volume that defended not only Lady Byron but also Mrs. Stowe. The book only fanned the flames of rebuke and debate. From 1869 to 1870, at least forty-one review articles of Stowe's work were published, including a response by Mark Twain. In the same time period, eight books were published in response, including Medora Leigh's autobiography. It announces in its subtitle that it contains “an introduction and commentary of the charges brought against Lord Byron by Mrs. Beecher Stowe” (Leigh defends the poet).

North America

2021 ◽  
pp. 462-478
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
New Divinity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Study

This chapter assesses the main strands of Edwards’s reception in North America from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. Most Americans did not know much, if anything, about Edwards until decades after his death, when various—often conflicting—views of Edwards appeared. New Divinity ministers expanded his theological vison while revivalists, including Charles G. Finney, enlisted Edwards’s legacy for their purposes, and thousands of evangelicals embraced Edwards’s Life of David Brainerd. Edwards intrigued (and offended) writers like Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and his condemnation of sin caught the interest of antislavery advocates in the Civil War. His legacy helped to shape the rise of American literature as a discipline, leading to the widespread academic study of Edwards that exploded in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with over 5000 books, dissertations, articles, and theses published on Edwards.

scholarly journals Editing and Noting: Vision and Revisions of Leigh Hunt's Literary Lives

2008 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ken A. Bugajski
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Literary Reputation ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Autobiographical Texts

Abstract This essay examines Leigh Hunt’s three major autobiographical texts: Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828), The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt (1850), and the second edition of the Autobiography (1860). From the earliest to the latest of these texts, Hunt transforms himself from the controversial author of The Story of Rimini and famous theatre critic to an editor of essay collections with a fading literary reputation. In both versions of the Autobiography, Hunt reuses and revises previously published passages, and these alterations highlight his changing self-image, especially his movement away from the literary spotlight.

Kulish, Mykola Hurovych [КУЛІШ МИКОЛА ГУРОВИЧ] (1892–1937)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayhill C. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Peasant Family ◽  
Party State ◽  
Red Path

Mykola Hurovych Kulish was born on December 5, 1892 (Old Style; December 18 New Style) in Chaplinka, Tavricheskaia gubernia in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine’s Kherson oblast) to a peasant family. After his mother’s death, he left home to attend school in nearby Oleshky, where he met his future wife, Antonina, and his lifelong friend, Ivan Shevchenko (literary pseudonym, Dniprovskii). He started university in Odessa in 1914, but was soon conscripted into the Russian Imperial Army, and fought on the Smolensk front. After the February Revolution he served in the frontline soldiers’ committees, and he continued to fight with the Red Army during the Civil War. He joined the Communist Party in 1919. In 1922 Kulish was decommissioned to the post of school inspector in the People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkomos) in Odessa, where he began to write seriously. He joined the Odessa branch of the organization Hart [Tempering], headed the Zinovievsk (Russian imperial Ekaterinoslav, today’s Kirovohrad) branch of the Party’s literary journal Chervonyishliakh [Red Path], and in 1925 the Soviet Ukrainian party-state promoted Kulish to Kharkiv, then the capital of Soviet Ukraine.

Watts, Myrtle Eugenia ‘Jim’ (1909–1968)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Christina Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Dorothy Livesay ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Foreign Correspondent ◽  
Emma Goldman

Myrtle Eugenia Watts, known variously as Jim, Jean, or Gina, was a Canadian foreign correspondent for the Spanish Civil War, theatre artist in the Theatre of Action, and patron of Canadian leftist literary and theatre culture in the 1930s. In her short career, Watts had a significant impact on Canadian leftist modernist culture. Jean Watts was born in Streetsville, Ontario to a wealthy family. By 1920, Watts’s family had moved to Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood, where Watts’s social and artistic circle would eventually include such prominent Canadian cultural figures as writers Dorothy Livesay and Stanley B. Ryerson, and theatre artists Toby Gordon Ryan and Oscar Ryan. Watts and Livesay would spend their adolescences as self-identified bluestockings, attending lectures by prominent feminist Emma Goldman, and reading the literary works of European and British modernists. Beginning in her early adulthood, Watts contributed significant resources to the Worker’s Theatre (later the Theatre of Action) and to the establishment of the leftist literary journal New Frontier (1936–1938), for which her husband Lon Lawson was editor. In early 1937, after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Watts took up a position with the Canadian Communist Party newspaper, the Daily Clarion (1936–1939), as a foreign correspondent stationed at the Blood Transfusion Unit outside Madrid.

scholarly journals Diálogo transatlántico y heterocaracterización de "lo español" en el periódico chileno "La Semana" (1859-1860)

2016 ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Claudio Andrés Véliz Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Siglo De Oro ◽  
Hispanic Literature ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Siglo Xix

El periódico literario chileno La Semana (1859-1860) desde un espacio político cultural tenso como lo fue el término de la guerra civil de 1859, reafirmó un modelo de heterocaracterizaciones para la representación de la literatura española en su campo intelectual. A través de frases tales como: Siglo de oro español escuela para América, Espronceda símbolo de la literatura hispana del siglo XIX y España como representación de un igual/padre para los americanos, esta prensa fundacional y raciocinante (Ossandón B., 1998: 42-47) consolidó una imagen de ‘lo español’ involucrando un diálogo transatlántico entre la unidad cultural americana respecto a la producción literaria española. The Chilean literary journal La Semana (1859-1860) from a tense cultural political space, as it was the end of the civil war of 1859, reaffirmed a model of heterocaracterizations for the representation of Spanish literature in its intellectual field. Through phrases such as: Spanish Golden Century School for America, Espronceda symbol of 19th century Hispanic literature and Spain as a representation of an equal / father for Americans, this foundational and reasoning press (Ossandón B., 1998: 42 -47) consolidated an image of 'the Spanish' involving a transatlantic dialogue between American cultural unity and Spanish literary production.

Power Sharing and Democracy in Post-Civil War States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Hartzell ◽  
Matthew Hoddie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Power Sharing
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