March 20

In literary history

• 1852Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published as a book, after forty weeks as a newspaper serial. Three hundred thousand copies sold in the first year. Lincoln, meeting Stowe a decade later, allegedly called her the little woman who had made this great war.

Writers born on March 20

• Henrik Ibsen (1828)

The Daily Canon for March 20

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (1807).