Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abbie H. Fairfield

She wrote the novel a president reportedly said started a great war; here is everything else. These selections from Harriet Beecher Stowe range across The Minister's Wooing, Oldtown Folks, Palmetto Leaves, The Pearl of Orr's Island and her household papers, flowers and fruit picked from a long career. Stowe as stylist and observer rather than crusader. Meet the writer behind the phenomenon.