Life: 1851 - 1931
Birthday: 1851
Death: 1931
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.
source: Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
topic: Uncles, Writing, Achievement, Quiet Room, Uncle Tom