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1850 | Linda; or, The Young Pilot of the Belle Creole. Hentz's sentimental novel of Southern life describes the jealousy of the heroine's lover who vows vengeance on her other suitors. In its equally popular sequel, Robert Graham (1855), the hero has learned to control his passion, marries Linda, and takes her to India as a missionary. |
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1854 | The Planter's Northern Bride. One of the most popular sympathetic portraits of Southern life, Hentz's novel responds to Uncle Tom's Cabin by presenting slavery in a more positive light. Hentz was a New Englander who moved to the South and attempted to correct northern prejudices against southerners. |
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1856 | Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author. The author's most autobiographical novel, about a woman married to an insanely jealous man and the struggle between domesticity and having a career as an author, sells twenty thousand copies in its first edition. |
