ABSTRACT
IN A CARTOON FROM THE OCTOBER 1869 MERRYMAN’S MONTHLY, HARRIET Beecher Stowe wields a huge quill and conjures Lord Byron in the shape of a satyr. Byron rises on a dark cloud from a great black inkwell; a snake at Stowe’s feet reads “scandal”; a horned toad sits on copies of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred; and a human skull as well as a jarred fetus rest on a shelf in the background. The caption reads, “Mrs. HB-S-’s Great Incantation. Who have we here?—The great poet Byron or the D-l?”1
