Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright.

This collection provides insight into Stowe's other works and her life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Essays discuss the novel as an agent of social change, fairness in the novel, the novel as an abolitionist tract, and more. An annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author complement the text.

"It seems but fitting, that I should preface this story of my life, with a few words of introduction.

A biography profiling the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the American author who, in writing Uncle Tom's cabin, revealed the cruelties of slavery and further split an already divided country. Includes source notes and timeline.

" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman.