harriet

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Definition von harriet im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A female given name

I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.

given name, female

Martineau Harriet Monroe Harriet Stowe Harriet Beecher Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Tubman Harriet Wilson Harriet E

{i} female first name

Relevante Übersetzungen

Harriet Beecher Stowe

(1811-1896) black American writer and abolitionist, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

a US writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin influenced many people in the US, especially in the North, to oppose slavery (=the system where black people were owned by white people and made to work for them) . In the 20th century, the book was criticized for the way it shows the relationship between slaves and their owners, and the expression "Uncle Tom" is used in a disapproving way to describe a black person who is too eager to please white people (1811-96). orig. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Conn., U.S. died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Conn. U.S. writer and philanthropist. Stowe was the daughter of the famous Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Catharine Esther Beecher. She taught school in Hartford and in Cincinnati, where she came into contact with fugitive slaves and learned about life in the South, and later settled in Maine with her husband, a professor of theology. Her antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) had so great an impact that it was often cited (by Abraham Lincoln, among others) among the causes of the American Civil War. Her other works include the novels Dred (1856), also against slavery, and The Minister's Wooing (1859)

Harriet E. Wilson

orig. Harriet E. Adams born 1828?, Milford, N.H.?, U.S. died 1863?, Boston, Mass.? U.S. writer, probably the first African American to publish a novel in English in the U.S. Little is known of her history until 1850. She may have been an indentured servant in Milford, N.H., before becoming a domestic in Massachusetts. In 1851 she married a fugitive slave who ran off to sea before the birth of their son. Her one book, written to make money to reclaim her son from foster care, is Our Nig (1859), a largely autobiographical novel that treats racism in the pre-Civil War North. After 1863 Wilson disappeared from the public record

Harriet Jacobs

(1813-1897) black American antislavery activist who ran away to the North to escape slavery, founder of the Jacobs F Free School for black children

Harriet Martineau

born June 12, 1802, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng. died June 27, 1876, near Ambleside, Westmorland English essayist, novelist, and economic and historical writer. She became prominent among English intellectuals of her time despite deafness and other disabilities. She first gained a large reading public with a series popularizing classical economics, published in several collections (1832-34). Her chief historical work was The History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 (1849), a widely read popular treatment. Her most scholarly work is a condensed translation of The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853). Her best-regarded novel is Deerbrook (1839)

Harriet Monroe

born Dec. 23, 1860, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died Sept. 26, 1936, Arequipa, Peru U.S. editor. She worked on various newspapers in the city as an art and drama critic while privately writing verse and verse plays. In 1912 she founded Poetry magazine, securing the backing of wealthy patrons and inviting contributions from a wide range of poets. Monroe's open-minded editorial policy and awareness of the importance of the Modernist revolution in contemporary poetry made her a major influence in its development

Harriet Tubman

(1821-1913) black antislavery activist who helped slaves escape to the North via the Underground Railroad, spy for the Northern army during the Civil War

Harriet Tubman

a US slave who escaped to the northern US (where slavery was not allowed) and became an important member of the Underground Railroad, a system for helping slaves who were trying to escape. She also worked for the army of the North in the Civil War (?1820-1913). orig. Arminta Ross born 1820, Dorchester county, Md., U.S. died March 10, 1913, Auburn, N.Y. U.S. abolitionist. Born into slavery, she escaped to the North by the Underground Railroad in 1849. She made frequent trips into the South to lead over 300 slaves to freedom, despite large rewards offered for her arrest. Known as the "Moses of her people," she was admired by abolitionists such as John Brown, who called her General Tubman. In the American Civil War, she served as a nurse, laundress, and spy for Union forces in South Carolina. She later settled in Auburn, N.Y., and was eventually granted a federal pension for her war work

Silbentrennung

Har·ri·et

Türkische aussprache

heriıt

Aussprache

/ˈherēət/ /ˈhɛriːət/

Etymologie

() Anglicized form of French Henriette, feminine form of Henri ( Henry), popular in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.