What common ambition is shared by the regional writings of Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Sarah Orne Jewett?
a. to represent the severe and repressed religious customs of New England
b. to encourage readers to see the world from a woman’s perspective
c. to depict and warn women about the dangers of the wilderness
d. to stress the universal plight of women in all regions of the country
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a. to represent the severe and repressed religious customs of New England
b. to encourage readers to see the world from a woman’s perspective
c. to depict and warn women about the dangers of the wilderness
d. to stress the universal plight of women in all regions of the country
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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born
June 14, 1811
died
December 13, 1901
gender
female
place of birth
Litchfield, Connecticut, The 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!"
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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
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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