Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Sampson Low: Transatlantic Sociability and International Copyright
A talk by Dr Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London In July 1860, the American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a transatlantic best-seller, wrote to Elizabeth Gaskell with a proposition. Their shared London publisher, Sampson Low, had intimated to Stowe that Gaskell “seemed favourably inclined to entertain a project for […]
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