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* 1942: Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Forrest Wilson
A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned.
Wilson was the eldest son of the Suffolk landowner Capt Arthur Maitland Wilson, and his wife, Harriet Kingscote, a descendant of the 1st Earl Howe.
He supported the careers of many leading actors of the time such as Master Betty, his wife Elizabeth Satchell, his sister Elizabeth Whitlock, George Frederick Cooke, Harriet Pye Esten, John Edwin, Joseph Munden, Grist, Elizabeth Inchbald, Pauline Hall, Wilson, Charles Incledon, Egan.
It was also the home of Harriet E. Wilson, who published the semi-autobiographical novel Our Nig: Or, Sketches in the Life of a Free Black in 1859, making it the first novel by an African-American published in the country.
He was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet, who married Harriet Wilson, 12th Baroness Berners.
* Harriet Tyrwhitt, née Wilson, 12th Baroness Berners ( 1835 – 1917 )
* Debra Wilson as Harriet Tubman, Eva Perón, Skunky-Poo, Reporter
He was born on a farm in Hancock county, Ohio, the son of Robert Wilson and Harriet Welsh Campbell.
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Harriet E. Wilson ( March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900 ) is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent.
Wilson abandoned Harriet soon after they married.
Pregnant and ill, Harriet Wilson was sent to the Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Poor Farm in Goffstown, where her only son, George Mason Wilson, was born.
The widow Harriet Wilson returned her son George to the care of the Poor Farm, where he died at the age of seven on February 16, 1860.
On September 29, 1870, the widow Harriet Wilson married John Gallatin Robinson in Boston.
Harriet Wilson moved to Boston, Massachusetts to seek a living.
In 1863, Harriet Wilson appeared on the " Report of the Overseers of the Poor " for the town of Milford.
* Since Henry Louis Gates, Jr's work in 1982, Harriet Wilson has been recognized as the first African American to publish a novel in the United States.
* The Harriet Wilson Project of Milford, New Hampshire raised funds to commission and install the Harriet E. Wilson Memorial Statue ( 2006 ) in the town's Bicentennial Park in her honor.

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Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.
As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.
Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.
Another story involves the conviction of Harriet DeLong s ex-husband Vic for plotting to rob his former employer in a revenge scheme.
Harriet s son Eugene also gets involved when he tries to assist his father and almost loses his life.
Harriet s ex-husband eventually gets the death penalty for his crime, leaving Harriet and her son at odds.
Other episodes include Parker being accused of police brutality, Bubba trying to help his nephew deal with recovering from drugs, a deeper look at Lonnie s life off the police force which is controlled by his cantankerous Aunt Cora, and Harriet DeLong taking a bigger part in the story lines.
* Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin: an Electronic Edition of the National Era Version — Edited by textual scholar Wesley Raabe, this is the first edition of the novel to be based on the original text published in the National Era
As a response to perceived inaccurate portrayals of race relations in Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin, Baptist preacher Tom Dixon wrote The Leopard s Spots: A Romance of the White Man s Burden in 1902 asserting White supremacy amidst supposed African American evil and corruption.
The private girls ' school in Hartford, Connecticut, had many well-known alumni, including Catharine s sister Harriet, who also assisted her at the school.
Following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, both John Jacobs and Harriet Jacobs feared for each other s safety.
To avert the risk of Jacobs being kidnapped, Cornelia Grinnell Willis ( Willis ' second wife ) took Harriet and the Willis baby to a friend s house where they hid.
In May 1861, John S. Jacobs, Harriet s younger brother, was in London to publish a condensed version of her narrative called A True Tale of Slavery.
In 1865 Lydia Maria Child presented pages of Harriet Jacobs ' narrative in The Freedmen s Book.
“ Often in the cold weather were hundreds of them huddled together in misery and rags, over a few burning sticks, so desolate and filthy that they scarcely looked like human beings ,” recalls the author about Harriet s visit to Savannah.
Meanwhile, George s spirited cousin, Bella, helps George s sister, Harriet, and George s friend Sir Charles fall in love.
Harriet wrote her will in 1895 and lived another eight years, during which the country s general prosperity greatly increased the value of her estate.
At Harriet Lane Johnston s funeral, services were conducted by Bishop Satterlee and Canon DeVries of the Washington National Cathedral.

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The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.
In 1853, she spoke at a suffragist " mob convention " at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City ; that year she also met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.
Harriet Tubman visited Auburn, New York, located in Cayuga County, in 1887 with her daughter ( adopted ) and her 2nd husband.
Suffrage activists, especially Harriet Burton Laidlaw and Rose Livingston, worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.
" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring writer, who lives in New York City's Upper East Side.
Deciding to emigrate, the couple and their children moved to Australia's New South Wales in 1878, but it was here that Mary died after a few years, and so in 1886 Stephen remarried, this time to Harriet Eliza Gordon ( 1853 – 1910 ), an Englishwoman from a wealthy background who had moved to Australia when still a child.
He married a neighbor Harriet Allen Butler, daughter of Ellen Mudge and George Prentiss Butler, in Yonkers, New York on April 24, 1920.
* Harriet Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians, Cambridge University Press, ( New York 1993 ), ISBN 0-521-38850-3.
In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.
The Nelsons bought a two-story Colonial in Tenafly, New Jersey, and six months after the purchase, moved with son David to Hollywood, California where Ozzie and Harriet were slated to appear in the 1941-42 season of Red Skelton's The Raleigh Cigarette Hour ; Ricky remained in Tenafly in the care of his paternal grandmother.
Henry was especially close to his sister Harriet, two years his senior, according to the web site of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
Since its inception, Low End Theory has expanded to New York City, Japan, and currently hosts Low End Theory SF on the first Friday of every month in San Francisco at 103 Harriet.
In the 1960 – 1961 season, Moorehead made guest appearances as Aunt Harriet in the short-lived CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen starring Shirley Bonne and Elaine Stritch as Eileen ( an aspiring actress ) and Ruth Sherwood, respectively, two single sisters living in New York City.
Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet ( née Gilbert ), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer.
* The Family Way: A New Approach to Policy-Making by Anna Coote, Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt, 1990, Institute for Public Policy Research, ISBN 1-872452-15-9
In May 2007, Harriet Swift, an anti-logging activist from New South Wales was convicted and reprimanded for contempt of Parliament, after she wrote fictitious press releases and letters purporting to be Federal MP Gary Nairn as an April Fools ' Day prank.
Bush was born in Brick Church, Orange, New Jersey, the son of Harriet Fay and the Rev.
He left home during the War of 1812 and married Harriet Smith ( 1800 – 1867 ) ( Cambridge, New York, May 12, 1800 – Cincinnati, Ohio, June 21, 1867 ), the daughter of Dr. Sanford Smith ( 1760 – 1815 ) ( Stonington, Connecticut, February 27, 1760 – Scipio, New York, June 15, 1815 ) and his wife Priscilla Whippo Smith ( 1763 – 1838 ) ( Cambridge, New York, c. 1763 – Pottstown, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1838 ), in Rochester, New York on November 8, 1821.
So on July 20, 1866, Harriet and her daughter boarded the steamship that took them to New York.
Bolstered by the support of Boston socialite Harriet Hemenway and President Theodore Roosevelt, an avowed Audubon Society sympathizer, and a widespread letter-writing campaign driven by church associations, many of whom distributed the Audubon message in their various newsletters, the plume trade was halted by such laws as the New York State Audubon Plumage Law ( May 1910 ), which banned the sales of plumes of all native birds in the state.

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