Quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe's books, and about them
Uncle Tom's Cabin on Paradise Lost: “…"keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books,…”
Uncle Tom's Cabin on The Pilgrim's Progress: “…it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.”
Uncle Tom's Cabin on The Ancient History: “* _The Ancient History_, ten volumes (1730-1738), by the French historian Charles Rollin (1661-1741).”
The Souls of Black Folk on Uncle Tom's Cabin: “This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in “Uncle Tom,” came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.”
The Virginian on Uncle Tom's Cabin: “Howells saw many Silas Laphams with his own eyes; else UNCLE TOM’S CABIN were not historical.”
Grant on Uncle Tom's Cabin: “Harriet Beecher Stowe collected material from him for Uncle Tom's Cabin; Grant's memoir sales later rivaled "that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin."”
Esther Waters on Uncle Tom's Cabin: “Peter Parley's Annual," "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands," "Children of the Abbey," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Lamb's "Tales of Shakespeare's Plays," a Cooking Book, "Roda's Mission of Love," the Holy Bible and the Common Prayer Book.”
Words Are My Matter on Uncle Tom's Cabin: “The two great American novels of the oppressed, Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Grapes of Wrath, are saved from that minatory coldness by the authors' passion for justice...”