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Introduction Harriet Beecher Stowe as a writer Childhood and education Marriage and children ... Harriet Beecher Stowe and her neighbor, Mark Twain Introduction Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin , which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold over 10,000 copies in the first week and was a best seller of its day. After the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , Stowe became an internationally acclaimed celebrity and an extremely popular author. In addition to novels, poetry and essays, she wrote non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects including homemaking and the raising of children, and religion. She wrote in an informal conversational style, and presented herself as an average wife and mother. Harriet Beecher Stowe as a writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing career spanned 51 years, during which time she published 30 books and countless shorter pieces. Harriet made time for writing in her life while she was busy raising seven children and managing a household. She was fortunate in having the support of her husband Calvin Stowe who always encouraged his wife in her career. This kind of support from a husband was unusual at the time when women were not expected to have a career outside the home.

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Bibliography Uncle Tom's Cabin Criticism Domestic Goddesses Home Domestic Goddess Harriet Beecher-Stowe is most famous for her controversial anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh of nine children. Her father was the well-known Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and his wife was Roxana Foote Beecher. Roxana Beecher died when her daughter was five years old, causing Beecher to feel great empathy, she felt, for slave mothers and children who were separated under slavery. As Elizabeth Ammons points out in her preface to the Norton edition, if Beecher had been a man, she probably would have followed in her father's footsteps and become a minister. As it was, she was also wife and sister to preachers. She maintained that it was her Christian passion which compelled her to write her novel. The Stowes' family was not rich, and therefore, Harriet's life was sometimes conflicted between the necessities of motherhood and writing, or, between vocation and avocation. She eventually bore six children, with whom her writing competed. Stowe chose to write Uncle Tom's Cabin because her sister-in-law urged her to use her skills to aid the cause of abolition. The novel was incredibly popular and sold more copies than any book before it, with the exception only of the Christian Bible. "Today

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Image Donated by Corbis - Bettmann NAME: Harriet Beecher Stowe BIRTHDATE: June 14, 1811 BIRTHPLACE: Litchfield, CT EDUCATION: Educated at and subsequently taught at the Hartford Female Academy, founded by her sister Catherine Beecher in 1823. She also taught at the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati, established by Catherine in 1832. FAMILY BACKGROUND: Harriet was the seventh child of Roxana and Lyman Beecher, a famous Congregationalist minister. Her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, became a renowned preacher and leader of the abolitionist movement. Her sister Catherine was instrumental in furthering educational opportunities for women. She married the widower Calvin Stowe in 1836; they had seven children. DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Her most famous work was Uncle Tom's Cabin, which she wrote in 1850. The book opened up the realities of slavery to the entire world. It became a best seller which has never been out of print.

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25. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Mother, Reformer harriet beecher stowe to Eliza Cabot Follen December 16, 1852. Letters to Calvin stowe on the illness and death of their son, Charley, 1849. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma97/riedy/hbs.html

"... I HAVE BEEN the mother of seven children, the most beautiful and most loved of whom lies buried near my Cincinnati residence. It was at his dying bed and at his grave that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her. In those depths of sorrow which seemed to me immeasurable, it was my only prayer to God that such anguish might not be suffered in vain. There were circumstances about his death of such peculiar bitterness, of what seemed almost cruel suffering that I felt I could never be consoled for it unless this crushing of my own heart might enable me to work out some great good to others. I allude to this here because I have often felt that much that is in that book had its root in the awful scenes and bitter sorrow of that summer. It has left now, I trust, no trace on my mind except a deep compassion for the sorrowful, especially for mothers who are separated from their children." Harriet Beecher Stowe to Eliza Cabot Follen December 16, 1852 HER WORK HER LIFE Portrait Gallery Uncle Tom's mothers - from the story itself, with images from an 1853 American edition.

26. Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography And Literary Works harriet beecher stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.179/

Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Harriet Beecher Stowe Titles in Fiction category: Uncle Tom's Cabin Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject wi ... About the Author American writer and philanthropist, best-known for the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52). Stowe wrote the work in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it illegal to assist an escaped slave. In the story 'Uncle Tom' of the title is bought and sold three times and finally beaten to death by his last owner. The book was quickly translated into 37 languages and it sold in five years over half a million copies in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin was also among the most popular plays of the 19th century. "Eliza made her desperate retrest across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer." (from Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a controversial Calvinist preacher. Her mother, Roxana Foote, died at 41 - Stowe was four at that time. Her aunt, Harriet Foote, influenced deeply Stowe's thinking, especially with her strong belief in culture. Samuel Foote, her uncle, encouraged her to read works of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. When Stowe was eleven years old, she entered the seminary at Hartford, Connecticut, kept by her elder sister Catherine. The school had advanced curriculum and she learned languages, natural and mechanical science, composition, ethics, logic, mathematics, subjects that were generally taught to male students. Four years later she was employed as an assistant teacher. Her father married again - he became the president of lane Theological Seminary.

27. About Harriet Beecher Stowe A profile of harriet beecher stowe, 19th century author. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/stoweharriet/p/stowe_profile.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Women's History Art, Music, Writers, Media ... Harriet Beecher Stowe About Harriet Beecher Stowe Women's History Education Women's History Essentials ... Help Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1862 Image (c) 2002 Jone Johnson Lewis Email to a friend Print this Page Submit to Digg Suggested Reading Women Abolitionists Women and the Civil War 19th Century Women Writers Around About Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Elsewhere on the Web Harriet Beecher Stowe Most Popular Marilyn Monroe Quotes Black History Biographies Biographies of Notable Women Quotations by Notable Women: Index ... Elizabeth Blackwell Harriet Beecher Stowe From Jone Johnson Lewis Your Guide to Women's History FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Dates: June 14 , 1811 - July 1, 1896) Occupation: writer, teacher, reformer Known for: author of Uncle Tom's Cabin , a book which helped build anti-slavery sentiment in America and abroad About Harriet Beecher Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe - detailed biography Also known as: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Harriet Stowe, Christopher Crowfield

28. The Underground Railroad Site - Harriet Beecher Stowe Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, far from the plantations of the South, harriet beecher stowe nevertheless found the cause of the emancipation of the slaves http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Stowe.htm

Illustration from original edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin Newspaper ad for the popular book Works Cited Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, far from the plantations of the South, Harriet Beecher Stowe nevertheless found the cause of the emancipation of the slaves an important one. When her father assumed the presidency of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, she followed her family. There she met her husband and remained an active member of her community. In Cincinnati, she came into contact with fugitive slaves. Like Frederick Douglas , she used her gift of storytelling and writing as a way of bringing about change to American society. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin with the encouragement of her sister-in-law who was deeply affected by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law The following excerpt is taken from the last chapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which very much resembles a sermon. She urges white Northerners to welcome escaped slaves and treat them with respect: On the shores of our free states are emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of families,men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences, from the surges of slavery,feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality. They come to seek a refuge among you; they come to seek education, knowledge, Christianity.

29. Harriet B. Stowe - Ohio History Central - A Product Of The Ohio Historical Socie harriet beecher stowe was an American author and abolitionist in the years before the American Civil War. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=360

30. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Harriet Stowe Biography of harriet stowe (18111896). harriet stowe. harriet Elizabeth beecher was the seventh of Lyman and Roxana Foote beecher s nine children, http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_harriet_stowe.html

My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Harriet Stowe (1811-1896) Harriet Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was the seventh of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher's nine children, born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Harriet's mother died when she was five years old, and Lyman, a minister, remarried the following year, in 1817. At the age of twelve, Harriet began to attend the Hartford Female Seminary, an academy founded and run by her older sister Catherine. In 1832, the Beecher family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when Lyman became president of the Lane Theological Seminary. In 1834, at the age of 23, Harriet's first story was published in Western Monthly Magazine. In 1836 she married academic Calvin Stowe. Harriet was destined to live a life of prolific childbearing, as well as writing. Their twin daughters, Eliza and Harriet, were born the same year. A son, Henry, was born in 1838, and Frederick followed in 1840. In 1843, Harriet published The Mayflower, which was a collection of stories about the descendants of the Puritans. Her daughter, Georgiana, was also born this year. In 1846, Harriet was diagnosed with exhaustion from pregnancy and childbearing. She spent fifteen months at a water cure in Vermont to recover her physical and mental strength. Her son Samuel was born in 1848, but died the following year in a cholera epidemic. In 1850, the Stowe family moved to Brunswick, Maine, when Calvin became a member of the Bowdoin College faculty. Their son Charles was also born that year.

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Books Articles Message Archive Literature Study ... HOME Harriet Beecher Stowe: “A Little Bit of a Woman” By Barbara Smith The woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father’s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was a very young child; her husband, though an erudite theologian, could not provide financially and suffered bouts of poor health; she lost four children tragically; and she enjoyed the acclaim of the rich and powerful of her generation. In spite of these upheavals, her basic faith in the Lord Jesus Christ held and sustained her. Harriet was born in Connecticut in 1811, the daughter of Lyman Beecher. He was a persuasive preacher, theologian, a founder of the American Bible Society who was active in the anti slavery movement, and the father of thirteen children. Her mother who died when Harriet was four years old, was a woman of prayer, asking the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry. All eventually preached; Henry Ward Beecher, the youngest son became the most prominent. After her mother’s death, Harriet grew close to her sister, Catherine, teaching in her school and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron. When her father became president of Lane Theological Seminary in Ohio, she moved with him and met Calvin Stowe a professor and clergyman who fervently opposed slavery. He was nine years her senior and the widower of a dear friend of hers, Eliza Tyler. Their subsequent marriage in 1836 was born of the common grief they shared. In later years, Mark Twain’s daughter Susy Clemens saw Calvin Stowe merrily reported to her father, “Santa Clause has got loose.”(

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Sites by Name Sites by Topic Archives/Library Education Services ... Information Related Links (Outside sources will load in new windows) Harriet Beecher Stowe "The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under it. Harriet Beecher Stowe Author's preface from Uncle Tom's Cabin The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is operated as an historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The site also includes a look into the family, friends, and colleagues of the Beecher-Stowe family, Lane Seminary, and the abolitionist, womens rights and Underground Railroad movements in which these historical figures participated in the 1830's to 1860's, as well as African-American history related to these movements The house was the home to Harriet Beecher Stowe prior to her marriage and to her father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers, and antislavery and womens rights advocates. The Beecher family includes Harriet's sister, Catherine Beecher, an early female educator and writer who helped found numerous high schools and colleges for women; brother Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a leader of the womens suffrage movement and considered by some to be the most eloquent minister of his time; General James Beecher, a Civil War general who commanded the first African-American troops in the Union Army recruited from the South; and sister Isabella Beecher Hooker, a womens rights advocate.

33. American Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe stowe was the daughter of the famous Congregationalist minister Lyman beecher and the sister of the preacher Henry Ward beecher and the educator Catherine http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/stowe.asp

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House NHL-NPS photograph Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, lived in this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, to a notable Congregational minister and his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Cincinnati, Ohio , in 1832, where she taught at the Western Female Institute. While living in Cincinnati, she met numerous fugitive slaves and traveled to Kentucky where she experienced the brutality of slavery first-hand. It was also in Cincinnati that Harriet Beecher met her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, a teacher at the Western Female Institute. In 1850, Calvin Stowe accepted a teaching position at Bowdoin College and the couple moved to Brunswick. Harriet Beecher Stowe was encouraged to write by her husband and was a published author before moving to Maine. Based upon her experiences while visiting Kentucky and her interviews with fugitive slaves, Stowe started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin upon her arrival in Brunswick. Many of the characters in her book mirrored real-life individuals such as Josiah Henson, a fugitive slave who escaped from Kentucky to Canada along the Underground Railroad with his wife and two children.

35. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) 30 of the Most Influential Women of the Millennium Women s History Month 2001, harriet beecher stowe (1811 1896) http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/stowe.html

Sunshine for Women WHM 2001, ToC Home Harriet Beecher Stowe American Slavery and Abolitionism In the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were a few voices calling for the end of slavery, but the call for the compulsory abolition of slavery fell on fertile ground only with the religious revival's moral urgency to end sinful practices in the North of the 1820s. The abolitionist movement reached the crusading stage in the 1830 under the leadership of Theodore Dwight Weld, "the most mobbed man" in America, the brothers Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and William Lloyd Garrison. At first, abolitionists, widely regarded as a lunatic fringe, caused riots and mob violence wherever they went. After all, in the common mind, slavery was an interest, "concentrated, persistent, practical, and testily defensive," while antislavery was a mere sentiment, "diffuse, sporadic, moralistic and tentative." Spurred by the Christian evangelical fervor of the era, abolitionism began to coalesce from a set of privately held beliefs into a political movement that generated a growing stream of books, pamphlets and petitions Although divided over the means of obtaining their goal, the abolitionists founded The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), flooded the slave and free states with abolitionist literature, and lobbied in Washington DC for the end of slavery. Writers like John Greenleaf Whittier and speakers such as Wendell Phillips further spread the abolitionist message. As time progressed, anti-slavery societies were founded in every state, then every major city, then in many localities in the North.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Harriet Beecher , the daughter of the Congregationalist minist er, Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on 14th June, 1811. Her brother was the famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher . After an education at the Connecticut Female Seminary she taught at schools in Hartford and Cincinnati. In 1834 Harriet began to write short stories for the Western Monthly . Two years later she marrie d the Rev. Calvin Ellis Stowe, a clergyman and biblical scholar. Over the next few years Harriet had seven children but continued to write stories and articles for numerous magazines. Harriet was converted to anti-slavery campaign after hearing Theodore Weld speak at a public meeting. She was determined to do something to help the cause. One day, while in church, she decided to write a novel about slavery. The main character in the book was based on Josiah Henson , an escaped slave whose narrative Harriet had read. Weld's book

37. Harriet Beecher Stowe American Civil War Women Author harriet beecher stowe the first twelve years of her life were spent in the intellectual atmosphere of Litchfield. http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 at Litchfield, Connecticut. The first twelve years of her life were spent in the intellectual atmosphere of Litchfield, which was a famous resort of ministers, judges, lawyers and professional men of superior attainments. When about twelve, she went to Hartford, where her sister Catherine had opened a school. While there she was known as an absent-minded and moody young lady, odd in her manner and habits, but a fine scholar, excelling especially in the writing of compositions. In 1832, her father assumed the presidency of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, she followed her family. On the fifth of January, 1836, she married Professor Calvin E. Stowe, a man of learning and distinction. In Cincinnati, she came into contact with fugitive slaves. Stowe was catapulted to international fame with the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851. . Following publication of the book, she became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. She wrote A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic; and published a second anti-slavery novel

38. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: The The Romantic Period, 18201860 Fiction harriet beecher stowe (1811-1896) harriet beecher stowe s novel Uncle Tom s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/LIT/stowe.htm

var level = 2; FRtR Outlines American Literature Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Index Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the most popular American book of the 19th century. First published serially in the National Era magazine (1851- 1852), it was an immediate success. Forty different publishers printed it in England alone, and it was quickly translated into 20 languages, receiving the praise of such authors as Georges Sand in France, Heinrich Heine in Germany, and Ivan Turgenev in Russia. Its passionate appeal for an end to slavery in the United States inflamed the debate that, within a decade, led to the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). Reasons for the success of Uncle Tom's Cabin are obvious. It reflected the idea that slavery in the United States, the nation that purportedly embodied democracy and equality for all, was an injustice of colossal proportions. Stowe herself was a perfect representative of old New England Puritan stock. Her father, brother, and husband all were well- known, learned Protestant clergymen and reformers. Stowe conceived the idea of the novel in a vision of an old, ragged slave being beaten as she participated in a church service. Later, she said that the novel was inspired and "written by God." Her motive was the religious passion to reform life by making it more godly. The Romantic period had ushered in an era of feeling: The virtues of family and love reigned supreme. Stowe's novel attacked slavery precisely because it violated domestic values.

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HOME INTRO SYMBOLS ALMANAC GEOGRAPHY STATE MAPS PEOPLE FORUM ... WEBMASTER Harriet Beecher Stowe Born: June 14, 1811 Place: Litchfield, Connecticut Died: July 1, 1896 Place: Hartford, Connecticut H arriet Elizabeth Beecher was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, was a Congregationalist preacher, and he was well known as a persuasive speaker who championed high moral standards. He did not hide his anti-slavery views from his congregation or his children. Harriet was one of Lyman Beecher's thirteen children. All of them, including Harriet, were brought up with strong moral principles, and all were expected to follow their religious upbringing throughout their lives, which they did. Her mother died when Harriet was four years old, and she developed a close bond with her older sister Catherine. Harriet attended school in Litchfield during these years, then studied under her sister Catherine, and then joined her sister as a teacher herself. I n 1832 both of the sisters moved to Cincinnati when their father was invited to be the president of Lane Theological Seminary there. The move was an eye-opener for Harriet. She witnessed the cruelty of slave auctions. She saw husbands, wives, and children sold to separate bidders. She saw fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River from Kentucky, hoping to find refuge to the north in Canada. She drew upon several of these first-hand experiences when she later wrote the work that would make her famous, Uncle Tom's Cabin D

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