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Arab News
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
What We Are Reading Today: ‘E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand'
In her upcoming book, 'E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America's Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author,' Rose Neal, who has a Ph.D. in English, revives the legacy of a now-obscure novelist who was once a household name. Born in 1819, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, Southworth — better known by her initials, E.D.E.N. — was one of the most prolific and widely read American writers of the 19th century. Christened with a long name, Southworth once joked: 'When I was born, my family was too poor to give anything else, so they gave me all those names.' She would later shorten it to the distinctive E.D.E.N., under which she built her literary empire. With more novels to her name than Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain combined, Southworth once captivated audiences with feisty heroines who rode horses, fired pistols, and even became sea captains. Her most famous novel, 'The Hidden Hand,' was so popular that readers named their daughters after its fearless protagonist, Capitola. 'Despite being one of the most beloved and well-known writers of the 19th century, as domestic sensational fiction declined in popularity, Southworth was entirely forgotten, as was an entire generation of women writers,' Neal writes. 'For Southworth, it was partly because she had done so well at hiding her own progressive ideas. Nevertheless, she should be rediscovered and given her rightful place in American history.' Southworth's fiction tackled issues that were often considered taboo, including domestic violence, poverty and capital punishment. Although she was raised in a slave-owning family, she wrote for The National Era, an abolitionist magazine, and encouraged her longtime friend Harriet Beecher Stowe to publish 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' She also supported the early women's rights movement and advocated for better education and living conditions for those in poverty. Neal's journey to uncover Southworth's story began unexpectedly as she pursued her master's degree. She asked her colleagues whether they were familiar with this author she had unearthed. 'They had never heard of Southworth or any of her novels,' she writes. 'How did a novelist as popular as Southworth slip into the dustbin of history?' she wonders. With this biography, Neal pieces together Southworth's story through her novels, letters and other documents, setting the record straight on a woman whose influence was far greater than history has acknowledged. Like her heroines, Southworth was bold, determined and ahead of her time. The book comes out in May and is available for pre-order.
Chicago Tribune
20-03-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Harriet Beecher Stowe's ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin' published
Today is Thursday, March 20, the 79th day of 2025. There are 286 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' was first published in book form after being serialized in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era; it would become the best-selling novel of the 19th century. Also on this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his 'Hundred Days' rule. In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by opponents of slavery at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison; she was released after serving 22 months and was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.) In 1987, azidothymidine (AZT) became the first medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat HIV/AIDS. In 1995, in Tokyo, packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were opened on five separate subway trains in a domestic terror attack by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, causing 14 deaths and injuring more than 1,000. In 1996, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. (They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.) In 2014, President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and a major bank that provided them support, raising the stakes in an East-West showdown over Ukraine. In 2018, in a phone call to Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump offered congratulations on Putin's re-election victory; a senior official said Trump had been warned in briefing materials that he should not congratulate Putin. Today's Birthdays: Actor Hal Linden is 94. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley is 80. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is 77. Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan is 74. Film director Spike Lee is 68. Actor Holly Hunter is 67. Model-entrepreneur Kathy Ireland is 62. Actor David Thewlis is 62. Actor Michael Rapaport is 55. MMA commentator and former champion Daniel Cormier is 46. Actor-singer Christy Carlson Romano is 41. Tennis player Sloane Stephens is 32.
Boston Globe
20-03-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Today in History: March 20, sarin gas attack in Tokyo subway
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' was first published in book form after being serialized in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era. It would become the best-selling novel of the 19th century. Advertisement In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by opponents of slavery at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wis. In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison. She was released after serving 22 months and was pardoned in 2001 by President Clinton.) In 1987, azidothymidine (AZT) became the first medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat HIV/AIDS. In 1995, in Tokyo, packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were opened on five separate subway trains in a domestic terror attack by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, causing 14 deaths and injuring more than 1,000. In 1996, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. (They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.) In 2014, President Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and a major bank that provided them support, raising the stakes in an East-West showdown over Ukraine. In 2018, in a phone call to Vladimir Putin, President Trump offered congratulations on Putin's re-election victory. A senior official said Trump had been warned in briefing materials that he should not congratulate Putin. Advertisement
