# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-h-eastman
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:00:22.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-h-eastman"
name: "Mary H. Eastman"
slug: "mary-h-eastman"
description: "Mary Henderson Eastman was an American historian and novelist who is noted for her works about Native American life. She was also an advocate of slavery in the United States. In response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eastman defended Southern slaveholding society by writing Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is (1852), which earned her considerable fame. She was the wife of the American illustrator and army officer Seth Eastman."
tagline: "American writer on Native American life, pro-slavery novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Henderson_Eastman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1818"
deathDate: "1887-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.024480000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%86%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Мері Істмен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مارى هندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meri_%C4%B0stmen"
    title: "Meri İstmen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Henderson_Eastman"
    title: "Mary Henderson Eastman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Henderson_Eastman"
    title: "Mary Henderson Eastman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "メアリー・ヘンダーソン・イーストマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Истмен, Мэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%88%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "మేరీ హెండర్సన్ ఈస్ట్‌మన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15975273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump