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    Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England
    Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England
    Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England
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    Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England

    By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet’s literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.

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      Title: Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas of New England

      Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

      Release Date: January 15, 2004  [eBook #10723]

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