Mrs. Stowe - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Japanese: ストー夫人 - ストーふじん（英語表記）Harriet Beecher Stowe

1811‐96
American author. Born in Connecticut as the second daughter of Lyman Beecher, a strict Calvinist minister, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832, and in 1836 married Calvin E. Storr, a professor at the seminary where her father was principal. Cincinnati bordered the slave states of the South across the Ohio River, and her experiences there strengthened her antipathy toward slavery. Together with her husband, she also helped fugitive slaves. After moving to Maine in 1850, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the book was published in hardcover in 1852, it became an unprecedented bestseller, and it is even said to have been one of the driving forces behind the Civil War.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1811‐96
アメリカの作家。厳格なカルバン派の牧師ライマン･ビーチャーの次女としてコネティカット州に生まれる。1832年家族とともにオハイオ州シンシナティに移り，36年父が校長を務める神学校の教授カルビン･E.ストーと結婚。シンシナティはオハイオ川を隔てて南部の奴隷州と接し，その見聞を通じて奴隷制度への反感を強め，夫とともに逃亡奴隷の世話もした。50年メーン州に移った後《アンクル･トムの小屋》を書く。52年同書が単行本として出版されるや空前のベストセラーとなり，南北戦争誘発の原動力の一つになったとさえいわれる。

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