TIL the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin rewrote much of the book from memory in old age believing it to be an entirely new work due to her dementia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe#Later_years



Submitted March 17, 2015 at 04:03AM by homo_erector http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2za9jf/til_the_author_of_uncle_toms_cabin_rewrote_much/