Harriet Beecher Stowe





Harriet Beecher Stowe

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born
June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, The United States

died
December 13, 1901

gender
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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!"


Average rating: 3.68 · 44708 ratings · 2520 reviews · 129 distinct works
Uncle Tom's Cabin
3.68 of 5 stars 368 avg rating — 44359 ratings — published 1851 — 49 editions
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3.66 of 5 stars 366 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1979 — 30 editions
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Pink and white tyranny. A s...
3.41 of 5 stars 341 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1988 — 21 editions
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life...
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Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
3.5 of 5 stars 350 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1853 — 23 editions
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The Ghost in the Mill
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More books by Harriet Beecher Stowe…
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“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.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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