Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and anti-slavery campaigner, most famous for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a bestseller in Britain and the United States. 

She is mentioned in a letter from Eliza Bostock to Reid, written while Stowe was in Britian for the publication of her novel, Dred (1856). Bostock fears the consequences of hosting anti-slavery lectures at Bedford College while its existence is still precarious, but suggests that it "if Mrs Stowe were to come one day in a quiet unpretending way and talk to the pupils about slavery, that would be a different thing," but there is no evidence she actually gave a talk at College.