Sample Sentences forHarriet Beecher Stowe (auto-selected)
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On the other hand, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an influential story about the evils of slavery.† (source)
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In April, 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe (who once described herself in a letter as "a little bit of a woman—somewhat more than forty, about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff: never very much to look at in my best days, and looking like a used-up article now") sent the first chapter of what she thought would be a short novel to the National Era, an antislavery weekly published in Washington, D. C. It turned out to be a very long book.† (source)
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It was a sentimental age when strong men were not afraid to cry (or weep, as they would say), when Harriet Beecher Stowe's great novel and Stephen Foster's songs could stir genuine emotions.† (source)
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While the war still raged he told the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Whichever way the war ends, I have the impression that I shall not last long after it is over."† (source)
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Here's a partial list: Ralph Touchett in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and Milly Theale inhis later The Wings of the Dove (1902), Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Paul Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1848), Mimi in Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896), Hans Castorp and his fellow patients at the sanatorium in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), Michael Furey in Joyce's "The Dead," Eugene Gant's father in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (1935), and Rupert Birkin in Lawrence's Women in Love.† (source)
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN or Life among the Lowly, By Harriet Beecher Stowe† (source)
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I walked her to the Lincoln Memorial and lectured her on Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Douglas, Mary Todd, Andrew Johnson, John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Simon Legree.†
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