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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“I am a little bit of a woman,” Stowe wrote
to an admirer about the time she was sitting for this
likeness, “about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff.”
Many who met her did not agree with this self-appraisal.
“She is not beautiful,” admitted one journalist,
“and yet her eyes are not often surpassed in beauty.
They are dark and dreamy and look as if some sorrowful
scene haunted her brain.” |
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Unidentified photographer
Daguerreotype, 1852
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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