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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

""Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject.... But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-known work was first published in weekly installments from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Stowe, harriet beecher, 1811-1896 -> BiographyLiterary BiographyAmerican Civil War

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in Biography or AutobiographyMajor1995WinnerSecondary source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor1994FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Harriet Beecher Stowe90%

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

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