"Harriet beecher stowe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... women of note are briefly recounted. Among the number are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Maria Mitchell, Madame de Stael, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Florence Nightingale. An encouraging book for ...
— A Mother's List of Books for Children • Gertrude Weld Arnold
... coral-fisher. Compared with his, the life of a galley-slave is one of sybaritical indolence. His treatment was, until very recently, not one whit better than that of the poor oppressed negro as he existed in the vivid imagination of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe; immeasurably worse than that of the real Simon Pure. The thirty ducats for which he sold his seven months' services once paid, he was just as much a slave as Uncle Tom of pious memory, harder worked, more brutally handled. His padrone was a sea-monster, alongside of whom Mr Legree ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan |
