Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Summary
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Biographies (10)

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Although Harriet Beecher Stowe was widely renowned as the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story whose strong message against slavery has been heard around the world, Theodore R. Hovet asserte... Read more
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The impact created in 1852 by the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) made her the most widely known American woman writer of the 19th century.Harriet Beecher Stowe'... Read more
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (14 June 1811-1 July 1896), prolific novelist, is remembered today for Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the daughter of the distinguished Congregationa... Read more
3,021 words, approx. 11 pages
Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) became not only a phenomenal best-seller but a moral instrument. Combining domesticity and sentiment with violence and realism, this novel was the tar... Read more
5,979 words, approx. 20 pages
Harriet Beecher Stowe 's greatest fame derives from the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin upon readers of all ages. Its characters, Uncle Tom, Little Eva, Topsy, and Simon Legree, have assumed mythological ... Read more
3,979 words, approx. 14 pages
Until fairly recently Harriet Beecher Stowe has been remembered almost exclusively for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). For almost a half century, however, she not only wrote some of the finest regional nove... Read more
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, who has been described as "a 'genius' in a family of eccentrics," is best known for her 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. Few American books ha... Read more
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Greeted in her own time with vast popular acclaim in the Northern states--and with disdain by Southern slaveholding interests--Harriet Beecher Stowe remains widely known today. Yet, her reputation res... Read more
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Once feted as the author of the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century and among the best-paid writers of her day, Harriet Beecher Stowe fell into critical obscurity when literary modernists dis... Read more
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Biography EssayHarriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) became not only a phenomenal best-seller but a moral instrument. Combining domesticity and sentiment with violence and realism, this no... Read more