Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life story of the prolific Christian author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that slavery's days were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.

This is the first full scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over 50 years. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of theis gifted complea and contradictory woman. This explores what it meant to be a woman in herlife time as wellas her accomplishments and tragedies.507 pages. Softcover.

Called by Abraham Lincoln "the little lady who made this big war," novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe changed the course of American history when her powerful indictment of slavery fueled the abolitionist movement.