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Article: It has all the history you need to write a book.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Byline: John Gould
Without looking up facts, which would be easy to do, I suppose I'm safe in saying that Harriet Beecher Stowe attended the First Parish Congregational Church at Brunswick, in the State of Maine. Mrs. Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852), was the wife of a Bowdoin College faculty member, and a sister of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher who said to the hen, "You're a beautiful creature." When our Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln as I recall, was introduced to Stowe, he said, "So this is the little lady who wrote the big book that made this great war."
Taking the blame for that conflict is monumental, but Stowe's novel did lift ...
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