Harriet Beecher Stowe
Subtitle: author and abolitionist
By: Ryan P. Randolph.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The library of American lives and times
Publisher: PowerPlus Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Juvenile literature.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. -- Juvenile literature.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Suffragists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Slavery in literature -- Juvenile literature.; Authors, American.; Abolitionists.; Women -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106) and index.
Table of contents: title: Author and abolitionist; title: A religious childhood; title: School life; title: West to Cincinnati; title: Wife, mother, and writer; title: Slavery and the background to Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Uncle Tom's cabin; title: The Civil War; title: Later writings and the movement for women's rights; title: Her final years.