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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20060524
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Byline: Anne Farrow

May 24--For a woman who loved her home as much as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thursday's debut of a nationally marketed line of fabrics, many inspired by her Forest Street home, would be wonderful news. Windham Fabrics, an arm of Baum Textile Mills, is introducing a line of fabrics called the American Woman's Home Collection, and even the name comes from the life and work of Stowe, whose 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped galvanize a nation divided over slavery and became the best-selling novel of the 19th century. "American Woman's Home" is the title of a ...

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