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We and Our Neighbors

Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1875

An 1875 novel by Stowe about urban life and social manners in New York, sequel to My Wife and I.

A later novel by Stowe, showing her continued writing career on social themes beyond slavery.

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A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1875 as a sequel to her earlier novel My Wife and I. It is subtitled "The Records of an Unfashionable Street" and is described as a novel of urban manners.

Why it matters

This book shows Stowe's continued output as a novelist writing about contemporary social life in New York, well after her antislavery fiction made her famous. It is evidence of her long and varied literary career.

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  • Why might a novelist write a sequel years after the first book?
  • What does the subtitle, "Records of an Unfashionable Street," suggest about the book's subject?
  • How might this novel's concerns differ from those of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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