Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an author and abolitionist.
==Background==
She most notable for her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Ticknor and Fields. It furthered abolitionist support in the American North in the years leading up to the American Civil War. The book was so influential that, in an apocryphal story, Abraham Lincoln remarked, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
==Notes==
A plaque at the Old Corner Bookstore mentions that Ticknor and Fields published her works.Plaque at Old Corner Bookstore: "The Old Corner Bookstore was originally built as an apothecary after the devastating Great Fire of 1711. Originally the land belonged to Anne Hutchinson, the controversial puritan who was excommunicated and banished from Massachusetts for her "heretical" beliefs and sermons. During the mid-nineteenth century, the Old Corner Bookstore was the home of the leading American publisher Ticknor and Fields. They published the works of such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Dave Thoreau. Many of those were frequent visitors to the site."
==Appearances==
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==References==
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