The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-11-26
From Eminent Women OF America.
Uncle Toms Ca bin.
THE STORY OF A STORY.

THE STORY OF STORY
| T0psy's solution of the problem of he
personal existence is the most satisfactory
explanation OF the production of this story
grew While as yet the form and plan
)f the work lay undevelopcd in her MIN,
sue made beginning, which was a strok,
sC the heart OF the whole story.
One day, on entering his wIfes room il
| brunswick, Prof Stowe saw several sheet
II paper lying here and there, which wer,
| :oyered with ner handwriting. The dealt
| II Uncle Iont was what he read. Tina
| vas first written. "Tou can make some
thing out OF this, said he 81 mean to d,
80, Was the reply. Soon after, MIR. Bailey
| Sho was then publishing and anti slavery
| paper in Washington, solIcIted Mrs. STOW,
| GO write series OF articles for It's col
| INNS
The way was open, and she was ready
md being called Of God by faith, she went
orth, not knowing whittier she went
Ter Uucte Tom should have a history, o
| which his death scene snOald be the Jog
al consequence and elimination. As sn.
nased the fire burned Tnc true starting
| JOINT was readily found, and gradually -
| iAO2b AN@sSAS'ItS obJl5 lNl AZ ~ NO4NEtb
IN which picture OF slavery as it is Nigh.
Je exhIbIted--a web was ldId, into which
she might weave, with threads Of gold, ana
silver, and purple, her brave desIgAs
Uncle Tom" began to be published in Oh
-Kat10hoI Era, as a serial, ia the Summer
If 1851, and was continued from week t,
week until its conclusion in March.
1852.
TWAS not product of leisure hours
Wrought with a sad sincerity"
ind under most grieyous burdens and dis
advantages. Her health was delicate. Her
cares were great. In charge OF larg
:dmlly, and compelled by the sternest ..
Ill necessities to make the most Of ye~y
little and poor help in her household la
)0rs, much more OF this wonderful book
vas actually written by Mrs Stowe, a..
she sat with her portfolio upon her knee,
~ the kitchen fire, in moments snatchld
rom her domestic cares. We may be par
loned for saying that if the cuisine was
laif as well managed as the composition,
hose who sat at Mrs Stoves table, a:
Well as those other innumerable ones VIII
nave Toasted upon the fruits OF her literary
toll, were fortunate indeed. 1.-The book,
Is Prof. Stowe finely says, was written III
sorrow, in sadness, and o6scurlty, with no
expectation of reward save in the PRAYERS
)ithe poor, and with d heart almost broken
IN view of the sutferingS which 1t described
and the still greater suferlngs which 1t
dared not describe"
The peculiarly of the book was I'M
bounded, and its circulation unprecend-
ented. No work in the English language
vas ever so widely sold Within SIX
months over one hundred and fifty thous
md copies were sold in America, and
within Il few years it reached sale oil
nearly five hundred thousand copies Tht
irst London edition was published in
May, 1852 The next September the pub
fishers furnished to one house alone ten
thousand copies each day for four weeks,
making tale of. two hui dred and forty
thousand copies in one month
Be fore the end of the year 1852 the
book had been translated into the Spanish
italian, French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch,
Flemish, German, Polish and Magyar Ere
.png 1t was translated into every European
language, and also into Arabic and Armen-
an.
But remarkable rs was the literary pop
ilarlty ofthe book, its political and IN raj
influence was hardly IS $. Said Lord
Palmerston to one from whose lips the re
mark was taken as it here stands, u have
not read novel for thirty years but /
aave read that book three times, not only
ior the story, but for tue St.ttesma1aslstp o.
il !" Lord Cockburn said "She has done
more for humanity than was ever before
accomplished by any single book OF tic-
IEionn