uncle tom's cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a female writer in American history. She was born into a respectable family in 1811. Her father was a famous American divine who worshiped and feared God very much. She had two brothers and an older sister. As for Harriet’ career, firstly, she worked for her sister in Western Female Institute. Later, she changed her idea and converted her lifelong interest into writing into magazine stories. She got married in 1836 and bore seven children in all. In 1850, she returned to New England. And her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was originally entitled The Man That Was a Thing became popular in February, 1851. She also wrote something else such as A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The historical significance of Stowe‘s anti-slavery writing has tended to draw attention away from her other work, and from her work‘s literary significance. Her work was admittedly uneven. At its worst, it indulged in a romanticized Christian sensibility that was much in favor with the audience of her time, but that found little sympathy or credibility with modern readers. At her best, Stowe was an early and effective realist. Her settings were often accurately and described in details. Her portraits of local social life, particularly with minor characters, reflected an awareness of the complexity of the culture she lived in, and an ability to communicate that culture to others. In her commitment to realism, and her serious narrative use of local dialect, Stowe predated works like Mark Twain‘s Huckleberry Finn by 30 years, and influenced later regionalist writers including Sarah Oren Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman.
