H[enrietta] E[lizabeth] Marshall was a very prolific British writer of books for children, many of which were adaptations jointly published by Jack in the U.K. and Dutton in the U.S. in the "Told to the Children" series. According to Marshall's introduction, though "a good deal has had to be left out or made different" in order to tell the book to children, she tried "to tell the story as much as possible as Harriet Beecher Stowe did."

  This Dutton publication seems to use the same sheets and illustrations as the English one, so that, for example, it refers to ante bellum Americans as "the people who lived in that country." The textual evidence indicates that Marshall's adaptation was also the source for at least three subsequent American children's editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The YOUNG FOLKS' EDITION (published by the Dononue company in Chicago) and the PLEASANT HOUR EDITION (from Barse and Hopkins in New York) seem to have been independently derived, mainly by still deeper cuts in the text, from Marshall's version. The Graham & Matlock LITTLE FOLKS' EDITION seems in turn to be a revised version of the Pleasant Hour text: it follows that text in reducing Marshall's 21 chapters to 12.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Told to the Children
By H. E. Marshall with Pictures by A. S. Forrest;
(From the Told to the Children Series, edited by Louey Chisholm)
(New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., c.1904)