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
Emily Dickinson read her with admiration, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne traveled to Italy just to meet her.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021
The law leads to angry protests and inspires Harriet Beecher Stowe to write a serialized novel that will become Uncle Tom's Cabin.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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