Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

What an amazing impact one woman and one book can have!! I have always dreamed of becoming a writer, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with Anne Frank and Helen Keller, is one of my chief inspirations to do so. Each and every one of us has the power to change the world. This may be the age of the “ke......more

Harriet was an interesting woman and so lucky that during her childhood she was treated the same as her brothers and allowed to do and dream big things. I love that she went to her sister's school for a year and then was a teacher there. What an interesting time that must have been to teach students......more

I enjoyed this concise biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is written for young readers, but I found it meet my inquiries concerning this influential author. This read has motivated me to read Uncle Tom's Cabin, a classic work of fiction that I missed (probably avoided because I was not a reader......more

I always wanted to know more about Harriet Beecher Stowe other than she wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. This book gave me the information I sought. I learned more about the impact her book and work had on the abolitionist movement as well as her private life.......more

The woman who started a war with her book was very active all of her life in trying to end slavery in America. This book shows how she progressed from a little girl reading whatever she could in her father's library to a busy writer through the end of her life.......more