Elizabeth Harriet Beecher Stowe , is an American écrivaine. It was born the June 14th 1811 in Litchfield (Connecticut, the United States) and died on July 1st 1896.

Biography

Resulting from a puritan medium, it receives from her father, the Reverend protesting Lyman Beecher, a strict and rigorous education. In 1832, it founds a seminar in the Ohio. It is the occasion for Elizabeth to launch out in the writing with the Scènes and types going down from the pilgrims .

Later, she marries Pasteur with whom she shares an engagement against the Esclavagisme. She had to leave with him, for opinions abolitionists openly declared, the town of Cincinnati where Doctor Stowe was professor and took refuge in Maine. It is in this spirit that she writes Uncle Tom's cabin ( Uncle Tom' S Cabin ), which was a success immense and immediate, and who carried a terrible blow to the cause of slavery (1852). She had before made publish some tales or news. Strong of this success, it will try to publish a continuation in 1856: Dred, history of the large cursed marsh . But the title did not find same enthusiasm popular as Uncle Tom's cabin who will remain his work impossible to circumvent, and which had an immense success in America and Europe, and was translated in all the languages.

External bond

• Biblioweb: its biography and the summary of Uncle Tom's cabin.

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