Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and writer, best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books in US history. (Abraham Lincoln reportedly said to Stowe when he met her: "So you're the little lady who wrote the book that started this great war.") As did many women writers on the 19th and 20th centuries, she adopted a masculine pseudonym ("Christopher Crowfield") for some of her writings.

Today, Uncle Tom's Cabin is critiqued for its patronizing attitudes and use of stereotypes. "Uncle Tom" has become a derogatory term used to describe African-Americans who are loyal and submissive in the face of racism. "Simon Legree", a slave owner, has become synonymous with viciousness and greed.

As did many writers of the Victorian-era, Stowe included supernatural (often religious) elements in her stories, and wrote some outright ghost stories.

Selected bibliography

• The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims (1834)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852)
• A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
• David And His Throne: Pen Pictures of the Bible (1855 collection)
• Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
• Our Charley, And What to Do with Him (1858)
• Golden Fruit in Silver Baskets (1859 collection)
• The Minister's Wooing (1859)
• The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)
• Agnes of Sorrento (1862)
• Reply on Behalf of the Women of America to the Christian Address of many Thousand Women of Great Britain (1863)
• The Ravages of a Carpet (1864)
• Religious Poems (poems) (1865 poetry collection)
• Stories About Our Dogs (1865 collection)
• House and Home Papers (1865) (as Christopher Crowfield)
• Little Foxes (1866) (as Christopher Crowfield)
• Queer Little People (1867)
• Daisy's First Winter, and other Stories (1867 collection)
• The Chimney Corner (1868) (as Christopher Crowfield)
• Men of our Times (1868)
• Old Town Folks (1869)
• Little Pussy Willow (1870)
• Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy (1870)
• "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House" (1871 short story)
• "The Ghost in the Mill" (1871 short story)
• "Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story" (1871 short story)
• My Wife And I: Or, Henry Henderson's History (1871)
• Pink And White Tyranny: A Society Novel (1871)
• Sam Lawson's Oldstown Fireside (1871 collection)
• Palmetto-Leaves (1873)
• Women in Sacred History (1873)
• We and Our Neighbors (1875)
• Betty's Bright Idea: And Other Tales (1875 collection)
• Captain Kidd's Money And Other Stories (1876 collection)
• Footsteps of the Master (1876)
• Bible Heroines (1878 collection)
• Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives (1878)
• A Dog's Mission (1881)
• Uncle Sam's Emancipation: Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline, and Other Tales and Sketches (1953 collection)
• Oldtown Folks (1966)
• Regional Sketches (1972 collection)
• The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1992 collection)
• Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1998)
• The First Christmas in New England (2002)
• Stories and Sketches for the Young (2003 collection)
• Tell It All: A Woman's Life in Polygamy (2003)