Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowewas an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 June 1811
CityLitchfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes about
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.
It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.
Rome is an astonishment!