Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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December 13, 1901

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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!"

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Average rating: 3.68 · 44708 ratings · 2520 reviews · 129 distinct works

	Uncle Tom's Cabin 368 avg rating — 44359 ratings — published 1851 — 49 editions	My rating:
	The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan K. Harris 343 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1859 — 43 editions	My rating:
	Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert S. Levine (Editor) 343 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1855 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine 366 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1979 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn Kish Sklar (Editor) 395 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, STOWE 406 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Pink and white tyranny. A society novel 341 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1988 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly, Volume 2 280 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin 350 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1853 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Ghost in the Mill 357 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:

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“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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“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

tags: heartbreak

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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.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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