Ramona
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Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life
1884 first edition
Helen Hunt Jackson around the time she wrote Ramona
Rancho Camulos
Wishing well, Ramona's Marriage Place
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward Afr
Ramona
…way to move people's hearts." She wanted to arouse public opinion and concern for the betterment of their plight, much as Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for enslaved African Americans. Her success in this effort was limited. Jackson intended Ramona to appeal directly to the reader's emotions…
Title page for Volume I of the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
An engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1872, based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel
First appearance of Uncle Tom's Cabin as serialized in The National Era (June 5, 1851)
A full-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852. Eliza tells Uncle Tom that he has been sold and she is running away to save her child.