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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, 1811-1896. Autograph quotation signed ("H.B. Stowe"), Andover, 11 January 1853. 1 page, small 4to, neatly inlaid, in very good condition.
LINCOLN'S "LITTLE LADY WHO STARTED THE CIVIL WAR" QUOTES HANDEL'S Messiah
Just after the publication of her enormously popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe pens a prophetic quotation from Handel's great oratorio for an apparent admirer: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Make strait in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made strait & the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed & all flesh see it together..."
Harriet, daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of preacher Henry Ward Beecher, became a dedicated member of the abolitionist movement; Uncle Tom's Cabin created a sensation and solidified anti-slavery opposition in the North.
LINCOLN'S "LITTLE LADY WHO STARTED THE CIVIL WAR" QUOTES HANDEL'S Messiah
Just after the publication of her enormously popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe pens a prophetic quotation from Handel's great oratorio for an apparent admirer: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Make strait in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made strait & the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed & all flesh see it together..."
Harriet, daughter of Lyman Beecher and sister of preacher Henry Ward Beecher, became a dedicated member of the abolitionist movement; Uncle Tom's Cabin created a sensation and solidified anti-slavery opposition in the North.