Text Appearing Before Image: MARION HARLAND, FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. NOTED WOMEN NOVELISTS. HELEN HUNT JACKSON HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. 219 The years from 1845 to 1850 were a time of severe trial to Mrs. Stowe. She andher husband both suffered from ill health, and the family was separated. ProfessorStowe was struggling with poverty, and endeavoring at the same time to lift theTheological Seminary out of financial difficulties. In 1849, while Professor Stowewas ill at a water-cure establishment in Vermont, their youngest child died of cholera, / Text Appearing After Image: UNCLE TOM AND HIS BABY. Aint she a peart young un? which was then rasrinof in Cincinnati. In 1850 it was decided to remove to Bruns-wick, Maine, the seat of Bowdoin College, where Professor Stowe was offered aposition. The year 1850 is memorable in the history of the conflict with slavery. It wasthe year of Clays compromise measures, as they were called, whicli sought to satisfythe North by the admission of California as a free State, and to propitiate the Southby the notorious Fug-itive Slave Law. The slave power was at its height, and 220 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. seemed to hold all things under its feet; yet in truth it had entered upon the laststage of its existence, and the forces were fast gathering for its final overthrow.Professor Cairnes and others said truly, The Fugitive Slave Law has been tothe slave power a questionable gain. Among its first fruits was Uncle TomsCabin. The story was begun as a serial in the National Era, June 5, 1851, and wasannounced to run for about three
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