Sophy Burnham - Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

- Sophy Burnham

topic: Uncles, Children, Book, Mending, Uncle Tom