AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Arthur Miller
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Edith Wharton
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history.
Detailed explanation-3: -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300, 000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852.
Detailed explanation-5: -On June 5, 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, D.C. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months.