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Harriet Beecher Stowe is the famous writer of Uncle Toms Cabin. Her book madeher readers aware of the conditions in the South for slaves and helped theabolition cause. Stowe wrote in her journal I wrote what I did because as awoman as a mother I was oppressed and brokenhearted with the sorrows andinjustice I saw because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianitybecause as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath. Afterthe success of Uncle Toms Cabin Stowe made three tours of Europe. Pink andWhite Tyranny is a comedy of manners on the institution of marriage in thenineteenth century. Lillie Ellis a professional belle has been spoiledpetted and flattered since the day she was born. When she tricks the adoringand upright John Seymour into marriage it is unclear who is the victim and whois the victimizer. «
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