Research Catalog

Title

Aunt Phillis's cabin, or, Southern life as it is / by Mrs. Mary H. Eastman.

Author

Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson), 1818-1887.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gihon, William B.
• Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879
• Lippincott, Grambo & Co., publisher.

Description

[2], 11-280 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Aunt Phillis's cabin
• Southern life as it is

Subjects

• Slavery > Justification > Fiction
• Slavery > Fiction
• Slavery > Justification > United States > Fiction
• Southern States > Fiction
• Women slaves > Fiction

Note

• With added engraved title page.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Written to counteract the influence of Uncle Tom's cabin.
• Some illustrations signed C.S. or W.G. Gihon.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Additional Formats (note)

• A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-E (Eastman M. H. Aunt Phillis's cabin)

LCCN

06037251

OCLC

• 2510423
• NYPGR2510423-B

Author

Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson), 1818-1887.

Title

Aunt Phillis's cabin, or, Southern life as it is / by Mrs. Mary H. Eastman.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3386

Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition), 1198

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 831

Additional Formats

A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-E (Eastman M. H. Aunt Phillis's cabin) (accession no. B545603) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-E (Eastman M. H. Aunt Phillis's cabin) has impression statement "Tenth thousand" on title page; copy is accompanied by [16] p. of publishers' advertisements, bound-in at end. NN

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-17062. NN

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Digital reproduction available from the Making of America web site, University of Michigan

Added Author

Lippincott, Grambo & Co., publisher.

Gihon, William B., engraver.

Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, illustrator.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

NBO (Eastman. Aunt Phillis's cabine)

Sc Rare Fic-E (Eastman M. H. Aunt Phillis's cabin)