Putting on 'Uncle Tom' on the Victorian stage

Race and Class

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 29-48

  Waters, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/0306396801423002     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Athenaeum (No. 566, 6 August 1836).
2. See Hazel Waters, '"An African's revenge": the black figure on the early nineteenth-century stage', Race & Class (Vol. 40, no.1 1998), pp. 13-32.
3. See R. J. M. Blackett, Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 (Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1983); Audrey A. Fisch, '"Negrophilism" and British nationalism: the spectacle of the black American abolitionist', Victorian Review (Vol. 19, no. 2, Winter 1993), pp. 20-47 and '"Repetitious accounts so piteous and harrowing": the ideological work of American slave narratives in England', Journal of Victorian Culture (Vol. 1, no.1. Spring 1996), pp. 16-34.
4. See R. J. M. Blackett, Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 (Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1983); Audrey A. Fisch, '"Negrophilism" and British nationalism: the spectacle of the black American abolitionist', Victorian Review (Vol. 19, no. 2, Winter 1993), pp. 20-47 and '"Repetitious accounts so piteous and harrowing": the ideological work of American slave narratives in England', Journal of Victorian Culture (Vol. 1, no.1. Spring 1996), pp. 16-34.
5. See R. J. M. Blackett, Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 (Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1983); Audrey A. Fisch, '"Negrophilism" and British nationalism: the spectacle of the black American abolitionist', Victorian Review (Vol. 19, no. 2, Winter 1993), pp. 20-47 and '"Repetitious accounts so piteous and harrowing": the ideological work of American slave narratives in England', Journal of Victorian Culture (Vol. 1, no.1. Spring 1996), pp. 16-34.
6. Blackett, ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 107.
8. New York Express, quoted in The Anti-Slavery Standard (1 July 1847), quoted in Fisch, '"Negrophilism" . . .', op. cit., p. 20. Also in Blackett.
9. New York Express, quoted in The Anti-Slavery Standard (1 July 1847), quoted in Fisch, '"Negrophilism" . . .', op. cit., p. 20. Also in Blackett.
10. See Howard Temperley, British Anti-Slavery, 1833-1870 (London, Longman, 1972) and David Turley, The Culture of English Anti-Slavery 1780-1860 (London, Routledge, 1991).
11. See Howard Temperley, British Anti-Slavery, 1833-1870 (London, Longman, 1972) and David Turley, The Culture of English Anti-Slavery 1780-1860 (London, Routledge, 1991).
12. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabir (Oxford, OUP, 1998), edited by Jean Fagan Yellin. Uncle Tom 's Cabin was initially serialised in The National Era, June 1851-April 1852, and published in two volumes in March 1852. The first, pirated editions appeared in England in July 1852.
13. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabir (Oxford, OUP, 1998), edited by Jean Fagan Yellin. Uncle Tom 's Cabin was initially serialised in The National Era, June 1851-April 1852, and published in two volumes in March 1852. The first, pirated editions appeared in England in July 1852.
14. See Harry Birdoff, The World's Greatest Hit - Uncle Tom's Cabin (New York, S. F. Vanni, 1947), chapter VII, 'Of the Tcmitudes abroad', pp. 144-65.
15. E. Fitzball, Thirty-five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life. 2 vols (London, T. C. Newby, 1859), vol. 2, pp. 260-1.
16. Stowe's preface, op. cit., p. 3.
17. Mark Lemon and Tom Taylor, Slave Life; cr. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, 29 November 1852 (Webster's Acting National Drama, vol. 17, no. 191).
18. The Spectator (No. 1275, 4 December 1852), pp. 1159-60.
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, the Negro Slave, the Standard Theatre, 8 September 1852. British Library Addl. Mss. LC 52934C.
20. See Douglas A. Lorimer, Colour, Class and the Victorians: English attitudes to the Negro in the mid-nineteenth century (Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1978).
21. LC 52934C, op. cit.
22. Eliza Vincent, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, the Fugitive Slave!, Victoria Theatre, 15 September 1852. British Library Addl. Mss. LC 52934F.
23. Ibid.
24. E. Fitzball, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Royal Olympic Theatre, 20 September 1852. British Library Addl. Mss. LC 52934g.
25. Ibid.
26. The Era (14 November 1852), p. 11.
27. Fitzball, Addl. Mss. LC 52934g, op. cit.
28. Ibid.
29. The Spectator (4 December 1852), op. cit.
30. Not that Lemon and Taylor thereby eschew the comic potential of the black; here the deficiency is supplied by a bizarre re-rendering of the character of Topsy, who is disguised as a boy and aids George in his escape, as his slave.
31. Addl. Mss. LC 52934c, op. cit.
32. Ibid.
33. '[W]hat the world sees as the curse of racial inferiority and cultural deprivation, Uncle Tom's Cabin views as the blessing of racial superiority and earthly trial. This Christian transvaluation enables Stowe to include the racist stereotypes of plantation fiction in her novel.' Jean Pagan Yellin, 'Introduction', Uncle Tom's Cabin, op. cit., p. xix.
34. Vincent, Addl. Mss. LC 52934f, op. cit.
35. G. H. George, A Colour'd Commotion: an Ethiopian extravaganza. British Library, Addl. Mss. LC 52934E.
36. See Birdoff, op. cit., pp. 152-3.
37. The Spectator (4 December 1852), op. cit.
38. The Era (5 December 1852), p. 10.
39. Shepherd and Creswick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Royal Surrey Theatre, 27 October 1852. British Library Addl. Mss. LC 52934K.
40. The Era (5 December 1852), p. 10.
41. Lemon and Taylor, op. cit.
42. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, the Negro Slave, Addl. Mss. LC 52934c, op. cit.
43. Fitzball, Addl. Mss. LC 52934g, op. cit.
44. The Era (7 November 1852), p. 10.
45. Illustrated London News (No. 588, 6 November 1852), p. 382.
46. Shepherd and Creswick, op. cit.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Lemon and Taylor, op. cit.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Illustrated London News (30 October 1852), pp. 354-5.
54. The Era (5 December 1852), p. 10.
55. The Era (2 January 1853), p. 10.
56. Illustrated London News (26 February 1853), p. 166.
57. The Era (2 January 1853), p. 10.
58. Ibid., p. 11.
59. J. R. Planché, Mr. Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 28 March 1853. British Library 2304 D.14.
60. The Era (3 April 1853), p. 10.
61. Planché, op. cit.
62. The Era (24 October 1852), p. 10.
63. The Era (21 November 1852), p. 6.
64. Westminster Review (January 1853), p. 298.