March 11, 2005
Historical census trivia of the day
Harriet Beecher Stowe reported her occupation to the 1880 census enumerators as "Authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Unfortunately, the Census Bureau and everyone else classifying occupations will lump her in with thousands of less famous authors who didn't tell us what books they had written ...
Posted by robe0419 at March 11, 2005 10:55 AM