Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, proved an ambitious reader from her childhood. Only five, she walked herself and her four-year-old brother to school every day to master the skill. “With the ability to read germinated the intense literary longing that was to be hers through life,” wrote her son, Charles Edward Stowe, in his biography …
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