Harriet Beecher Stowe

'''Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and abolitionist. In 1852, she published the scathing anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which would eventually be banned throughout the Confederate States.

Said President Abraham Lincoln to Mrs Stowe in 1862: "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." (referring to the War of Secession)