Harriet Beecher Stowe came from a family of ministers. Her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, sold over 300,000 copies in its first year and made her rich and famous. She went to court to stop an unauthorized German translation of her book. She visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1862 to discuss emancipation. Stowe lived in the neighborhood of Nook Farm in Hartford, Connecticut, where she was neighbors with Mark Twain. She outlived four of her seven children, who faced various tragic fates. There are three houses related to Harriet Beecher Stowe that can still be visited today.