Harriet Beecher Stowe
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is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a biography of
(mother of the mathematician and scientist
). Much of her journalism was evangelical in tone.
's reputation peaked with Uncle Tom's Cabin, after which her cultural standing declined.
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