Harriet Beecher Stowe




Harriet Beecher Stowe

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born June 14, 1811
died December 13, 1901
gender female
place of birth Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
genre Literature & Fiction

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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in a commonly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!"

books by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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avg rating: 3.70 | 4224 ratings | 61 distinct works
Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 3.79 — 2904 ratings — published 1852
108 editions
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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabi... The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (Hardcover)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 4.02 — 41 ratings — published 2006
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The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing (Penguin Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan K. Harris
avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 1999
5 editions
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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dism... Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Paperback)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 2006
4 editions
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Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three ... Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (Library of America)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1982
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Pink and white tyranny. A soci... Pink and white tyranny. A society novel (Paperback)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 2.80 — 5 ratings — published 2005
6 editions
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Pr... A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (Paperback)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2005
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The American Woman's Home The American Woman's Home (Library Binding)
by Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2002
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cliffs Notes)
by Thomas Thornburg, Cliffs Notes, Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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Little Pussy Willow and the Mi... Little Pussy Willow and the Minister's Watermelons (hardcover)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1899
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
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"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
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""Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.""
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