Mary Eastman ( born Mary Eastman ; nee Henderson ); 1818 , Warrenton , Virginia - February 24, 1887 , Washington ) is an American writer .
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| Birth name | Mary henderson |
| Date of Birth | 1818 |
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| Date of death | February 24, 1887 |
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| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | a writer |
| Direction | prose |
| Genre | Anti tom |
| Language of Works | English |
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Biography
Mary Henderson was born in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1818, in the family of a wealthy planter. When her father was appointed surgeon at the military academy, Mary moved with her family to West Point . There in 1835 she married the officer and artist she (she was then 17, and he was 27 years old, this was his second marriage). As M. Henderson later noted in her novel Aunt Phyllis ’s Cabin (1852), she was one of the descendants of and grew up in a society of slave owners [2] .
In 1841, Captain Eastman was appointed commander of in Minnesota and lived there with his family for several years. Mary took advantage of the situation to study the life and life of the Sioux Indian tribes living in the area of the fort, which resulted in the publication of her famous book "Dakota, or the life and legends of the Sioux Indians living near Fort Snelling" ( Eng. Dacotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling , 1849), which was illustrated by Seth Eastman. Among the Indian legends collected by Mary, there was a legend about the death of the beloved daughter of the Sioux leader, “ .” This legend did not reflect the realities of that time: at that time the word “winona”, which means Sioux in the Sioux language, was not used as a proper name, and Sioux tribes did not use titles like “princess” [3] . M. Eastman sent her book to the US Congress in 1849, it was placed in the library of Congress and is currently available on the Gutenberg project website.
After completing the mission at Fort Snelling, the Eastman family moved to Washington . After Harriet Beecher Stowe 's acclaimed book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin , directed against slavery in the United States, published in 1852, Mary Eastman wrote Aunt Phillis’s Cabin or Life in the South ( Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or , Southern Life As It Is , 1852), which instantly became a bestseller: from 20 to 30 thousand copies were sold; Eastman's book has become one of the most popular works of the Anti-Tom genre [4] .
Publications
- "Dacotah, or life and legends of the Sioux" (New York, 1849 );
- “American aboriginal portfolio” (Philadelphia, 1853 );
- "Chicora and other regions of the conquerors and the conquered" (Philadelphia, 1854 ).
- "Aunt Phillis's cabin" (Philadelphia, 1852 )
Notes
- ↑ Blain V. , Grundy I. , Clements P. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English : Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present - 1990. - P. 324.
- ↑ Mary Henderson Eastman, Aunt Phillis's Cabin , Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., 1852, p. 202
- ↑ Porter, Cynthya Homecoming To Explore Roles Of American Indian Women . Winona Daily News reprinted at Diversity Foundation (Feb 1, 2009). Date of appeal October 21, 2015.
- ↑ “Aunt Phillis's Cabin” , Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture , University of Virginia, 2007, accessed December 9, 2008. See also Alfred L. Brophy, "'over and above there broods a portentious shadow - the shadow of law,' Harriet Beecher Stowe's Critique of Slave Law in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Journal of Law and Religion 12 (1995): 457 (discussing Eastman's response to Stowe's critique of slaw law, especially as Eastman attempts to portray slavery as patriarchal).
Links
- An article in the Encyclopedia Britannica
- Eastman, Maria // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.