Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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This restored c1880 photograph features Harriett Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is popularly reported (from an account given by her son) that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Mrs. Stowe, greeted her by saying, "so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." During the last 23 years of her life, Stowe lived in a house in Hartford, Connecticut where her next door neighbor was fellow author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).

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Size: 5539px × 8040px
Location: USA.
Photo credit: © Alpha Historica / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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