Sophy Burnham: "Harriet Beecher Stowe berusia tiga puluh sembilan keti...

"Harriet Beecher Stowe berusia tiga puluh sembilan ketika dia memulai Paman Tom's Cabin. Dia telah melahirkan tujuh anak dan melihat satu meninggal. Dia menulis bukunya untuk diserialkan di sebuah surat kabar abolisionis. Sebagian besar darinya ia buat di atas meja dapur di sela-sela kegiatan memasak, memperbaiki, merawat rumahnya."

--- Sophy Burnham

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.