Harriet Beecher Stowe

Oldtown Folks (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Following the death of his father and brother, the young Horace Holyoke moves with his mother to Oldtown to live with her family. A few years later, Harry and Eglantine Percival-siblings who have suffered immensely-are taken in by the Holyoke family. Set in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Oldtown Folks is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513285054
• Artikelnr.: 61893655

Autorenporträt

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist. Born into the influential Beecher family, a mainstay of New England progressive political life, Stowe was raised in a devoutly Calvinist household. Educated in the Classics at the Hartford Female Seminary, Stowe moved to Cincinnati in 1832 to join her recently relocated family. There, she participated in literary and abolitionist societies while witnessing the prejudice and violence faced by the city's African American population, many of whom had fled north as escaped slaves. Living in Brunswick, Maine with her husband and children, Stowe supported the Underground Railroad while criticizing the recently passed Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The following year, the first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in The National Era, a prominent abolitionist newspaper. Published in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was an immediate international success, serving as a crucial catalyst for the spread of abolitionist sentiment around the United States in the leadup to the Civil War. She spent the rest of her life between Florida and Connecticut working as a writer, editor, and activist for married women's rights.