Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale of greed, betrayal, and rebellion, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American...

Published in 1868, this collection of biographical narratives of "Leading Patriots of the Day" includes chapters on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.

Pink and White Tyranny' is a romance-drama novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It tells the story of a New England man, John, who fell in love with a woman that he describes as having "a delicate little fairy form", and bores the name of Lillie. However, her real countenance is less that of a fairy godmother and more that of an evil witch-and poor John only discovered this after the two has entered into marriage.

In Harriet Beecher Stowe's short story, Christmas in Poganuc, a young New England girl, Dolly, is left alone while the village gathers at the church to celebrate Christmas. This timeless holiday classic was first published in the collection, A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, in 1895. It follows up on Harriet Beecher Stowe's earlier work Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lady Byron Vindicated" (A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work...

Stowe was the daughter of a prominent preacher, and the sister of the famous minister Henry Ward Beecher. This 1877 anthology of original and classic Christian hymns, essays, and homilies is organized by holiday, presenting thoughts for Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, Lent, Passion Week, Easter, and the Ascension.

Best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, her classic depiction of slavery that crysalized sentiment in the abolitionist cause, Harriet Beecher Stowe was also the author of this lesser-known but wonderfully rich reminiscence of life in early 19th century New England. Poganuc People was Stowe's last novel.

Here are collected three of Beecher's most treasured short stories. In "Betty's Bright Idea," a sweet young girl forms a bond with a poor family and is determined to help them make a better life for themselves. In "Deacon Pitkin's farm," a young boy whose family can no longer afford payments on their house chooses to forego schooling in order to help make money for his struggling kin. Lastly, "The First Christmas in New England" documents the first...