Awards Minnesota Book Award Description-So you\'re the little woman who started this big war, - Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Having meticulously researched Stowe\'s own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe\'s faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvinism through spiritualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative.
But Nancy Koester\'s biography highlights Stowe\'s faith as central to her Life -- both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God.
Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith.
Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.
Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom\'s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered.
Awards Minnesota Book Award Description-So you\'re the little woman who started this big war, - Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe
