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JAW67 | 12:55 Wed 09th Feb 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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What is the three-word main title of the first novel by an American female author to sell over one million copies worldwide? We've thought of Danielle Steele, but if anyone has any better suggestions? Many thanks.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" around the mid 1800's - don't know if this was her 1st novel, though, or the sales figures.  At least it's a three word title..!!
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Thanks for that.  Funnily enough, just a few minutes ago, I suddenly thought of that book too.  It looks like it could be right. I was thinking far too modern to start with!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is correct.  First released as a series of stories in The National Era, an abolitionist newspaper, it was soon published in book form.  In its first year of publication (1862) it sold 1.5 million copies in Great Britain alone.  Actually, it was the best selling 19th century publication of all time, other than the Bible...

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