Harriet Beecher Stowe

Discover the remarkable life of Harriet Beecher Stowe...
Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for her activism for abolition and the book she wrote in support of that cause, Uncle Tom's Cabin. That said, the woman behind that legacy was far more complicated than the single-book reputation suggests, one who has been lionized just as much as she has been criticized.

Long before she became a household name, Harriet Beecher Stowe of age on the American frontier, in a Cincinnati alive with steamboats and slave catchers alike, and found her voice in a lively literary club years before the world had ever heard of Uncle Tom. The novel that followed would make her one of the most famous women in America, celebrated by total strangers in one breath and threatened by them in the next. This book doesn't try to flatten her into either version. It follows Harriet through the triumphs and the complications alike-the causes she championed, the criticism she weathered from every direction, the scandals that touched her family, and the messier, more human moments the legend tends to leave out. This is Harriet Beecher Stowe's story in full.

Discover a plethora of topics such as

• Early Life
• Cholera and the Cure
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Crossing the Atlantic
• Abolition At Last
• Fantastic Phantasms