Perhaps more than any writer examined in this study, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an internationally known practitioner of a nation-producing genre by the time she traveled to Europe. Like Margaret Fuller, she grasped the possibilities of a popular print genre for reforming national subjectivities; her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was the most politically important and widely translated American novel of the nineteenth century and prompted her first European tour, in 1853, during which she was lionized in England. Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, she conflated travel writing with the novel; both wrote substantial descriptive passages based on their travels into the Italian romances they composed ten years after Fuller's coverage of the Roman Republic: Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) and Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento (1862). And both also wrote travel accounts of their tours elsewhere in Europe: Stowe on northern Europe in Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854) and Hawthorne on England in Our Old Home (1863).