CONTENTS Queer Little People The Hen that Hatched Ducks The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge The History of Tip-Top Miss Katy-did and Miss Cricket Mother Magpie's Mischief The Squirrels that Lived in a House Hum, the Son of Buz Our Country Neighbors Our Dogs Dogs and Cats Aunt Esther's Rules Aunt Esther's Stories Sir Walter Scott and His Dogs Country Neighbors Again The Diverting History of Little Whiskey Little Pussy Willow The Minister's Watermelons A Dog's Mission Lulu's Pupil The Daisy's First Winter Our Charley and the Stories Told Him Little Captain Trott Christmas; or, The Good Fairy Little Fred, the Canal Boy
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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