Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, aimed to stir the consciences of her readers（）
| Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her
heart into her anti-slavery book," Uncle Tom’s Cabin". But neither she nor
her first publisher thought it would be a big success. (78) The publisher was
so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all
she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk
dress. But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. For a while it outsold (销得比…多) every book in the world, except the Bible. Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America’ s most popular play for 80 years. (79) It might appear that" Uncle Tom’ s Cabin" was universally popular, bu A. Harriet knew that it would be a great success B. the publisher wanted Harriet to publish it at her own expense C. nobody knew that it would become a very popular book D. no publisher wanted to publish this anti-slavery book [单项选择]Harriet Beecher Stowe was raised in a Puritan tradition of high moral standard. Her father Lyman Beecher was a Congregational Minister and brother Henry Ward Beecher became pastor of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church. The Beechers moved to Cincinatti when Lyman Beecher was appointed President of Lane Theological seminary. There, Harriet’s sister Catharine founded Western Female Institute, where Harriet taught until her 1834 marriage to widower Calvin Stowe, a Biblical Literature professor at Lane. During the first seven years of marriage she bore five children, writing pieces for magazines to compliment Professor Stowe’s meager salary. She won a short story prize from Western Monthly Magazine, and her literary production and skill increased steadily. In 1834, her short-story collection The Mayflower was published.
This Ohio period gave Stowe the impetus to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Cincinnati was just across the river from the slave trade, and she observed firsthand several incidents wh A. Her puritan tradition of high moral standard. B. Her family. C. Her teaching in Western Female Institute. D. Her effort to compliment her husband’s meager salary. 我来回答: 提交
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