Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist from the Beecher family. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicts the harsh conditions of enslaved African Americans, reached millions of readers and energized the antislavery movement in the North while provoking anger in the South. She wrote over thirty books, including novels, three travel memoirs and collections of articles and letters. Betty's Bright Idea is one of her later Christmas stories.