Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Principal Works

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: PRINCIPAL WORKS

The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the Descendants of the Pilgrims [reprinted as The Mayflower; or, Scenes and Sketches among the Descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers.] (short stories) 1843

* Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly (novel) 1852

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (nonfiction) 1853

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. 2 vols. (memoir) 1854

The Christian Slave: A Drama Founded on a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin (play) 1855

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. 2 vols. (novel) 1856

The Minister's Wooing (novel) 1859

Agnes of Sorrento (novel) 1862

The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (novel) 1862

Oldtown Folks (novel) 1869

Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, from Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time (essay) 1870

My Wife and I: or, Harry Henderson's History (novel) 1871

Pink and White Tyranny: A Society Novel (novel) 1871

Woman in Sacred History (essays) 1873

We and Our Neighbors: or, the Records of an Unfashionable Street (novel) 1875

Footsteps of the Master (religious prose) 1877

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives (novel) 1878

* Uncle Tom's Cabin was initially published serially in The National Era.

Lady Byron Vindicated was written in response to negative public response to Stowe's 1869 article in The Atlantic called "The True Story of Lady Byron."

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