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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: August 9, 2015
Caption: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Additional Description: This 1853 portrait by Alanson Fisher hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“Excluded from public professions, cultivated women sought other avenues for their talents. From discussing the issues of the day in informal salon gatherings, it was a short step for women to become writers, especially since the antebellum period saw a burgeoning number of magazines catering to women. So Harriet Beecher Stowe started a career that made her one of the most popular novelists of the nineteenth century. Stowe's place in American history was sealed with her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52), which sold 300,000 copies in its first year. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a reform novel; Stowe was motivated to write it by the Fugitive Slave Law and the effect that slavery had in destroying the African American family. No more effective charge could be made in a nation that, both North and South, revered the family as the foundation of society.” -- National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: July 3, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p433474
File Size: 1.324 Megabytes

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