These short stories for children originally appeared in the author’s larger “A Dog’s Mission and Other Stories” (1880).
CONTENTS
I. Lulu’s Pupil
II. The Daisy’s First Winter
III. Our Charley
IV. Take Care of the Hook
V. A Talk About Birds
VI. The Nest in the Orchard
VII. The Happy Child
About the author:
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American novelist who won fame with “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852), which described the sufferings caused by slavery and strengthened the abolitionist cause. Other works include “The Pearl of Orr’s Island,” “Lady Byron Vindicated,” and “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.”
1811-1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Harriet was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, as the daughter of an outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher. She was the sister of the educator and author, Catherine Beecher, clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher.
Her father was a preacher who was greatly effected by the pro-slavery riots that took place in Cincinnati in 1834.
Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. and Britain and made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Upon meeting Stowe, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, "So this is the little old lady who started this new great war!"
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