Beecher Stowe
Britishnoun
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“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The six female additions include suffragist Susan B. Anthony and novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as Civil War nurses and a temperance crusader.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Amongst the circle of friends she would meet, invite to her home and correspond with were Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Christabel Pankhurst, Beatrix Potter and Charles Dickens.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2022
Bingham argues that this early version, which was called “Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night!,” adapted and bent the story by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was said to have called the book’s author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little lady that started this great war.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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