21. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Harriet Stowe Biography of Harriet Stowe (18111896). Harriet Stowe. Harriet Elizabeth Beecherwas the seventh of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher s nine children, http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_harriet_stowe.html

Study Guides, Literature Summaries, Novel Analysis, Editing Services and Successful College Application Essays My Account Home Getting you the grade since 1999. Search: Study Guides Editing Services ... Help 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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showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Personalities Dictionary Encyclopedia Works Literature WordNet US History Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Harriet Beecher Stowe Personalities View Poster Harriet Beecher Stowe Writer Born: 14 June 1811 Birthplace: Litchfield, Connecticut Died: 1 July 1896 Best Known As: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin Name at birth: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is the most famous piece of anti-slavery literature of the 19th century. From an activist and influential New England family that included her father Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), sister Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) and brother Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), Harriet moved to Cincinnati in 1833 and married Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. While living in Cincinnati, she became active in the anti-slavery movement and, while raising seven children, began writing professionally. Uncle Tom's Cabin , first serialized in 1851, appeared in book form in 1852 and became a bestseller in the United States and England. The story examined the "life among the lowly" and helped frame the slavery issue as a moral one. Stowe wrote more than two dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including

23. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896). Contributing Editor Jane Tompkins. ClassroomIssues and Strategies. The primary problems you are likely to encounter in http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stowe.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Contributing Editor: Jane Tompkins Classroom Issues and Strategies The primary problems you are likely to encounter in teaching Stowe are (1) the assumption that she is not a first-rate author because she has only recently been recognized and has traditionally been classed as a "sentimental" author, whose works are of historical interest only; (2) by current standards, Stowe's portrayal of black people in Uncle Tom's Cabin is racist; and (3) a lack of understanding of the cultural context within which Stowe was working. In dealing with the first problem, you need to discuss the way masterpieces have been selected and evaluated. Talk about the socioeconomic and gender categories that most literary critics, professors, and publishers have belonged to in this country until recently, explaining how class and gender bias have led to the selection of works by white male authors. The second problem calls for an explanation of cultural assumptions about race, which would emphasize the wayhistorically scientific beliefs about race have changed in this country between the seventeenth century and our day. For her time, Stowe was fairly enlightened, although her writing perpetuates stereotypes that have since been completely discredited. The third problem requires that the instructor fill the class in on the main tenets of evangelical Protestantism and the cult of domesticity, which were central to Stowe's outlook on life and to her work. Beliefs about the purpose of human life (salvation), the true nature of reality (i.e., that it is spiritual), the true nature of power (that it ultimately resides in Christian love), and in the power of sanctity, prayer, good deeds, and Christian nurture would be crucial here.

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Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER , author. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Beecher was the seventh child of the Reverend Lyman Beecher, a Congregational minister and moral reformer, and Roxanna Foote Beecher. She was schooled at the Pierce Academy and at her sister Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, where she also taught. She moved with the family to Cincinnati in 1832, when her father was appointed president of Lane Theological Seminary. The spectacle of chattel slavery across the Ohio River in Kentucky and its effects on the acquiescent commercial interests of white Cincinnati moved her deeply. In 1836, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, professor of biblical literature at Lane. The death of a son in 1849 led her away from her father's Calvinism and gave supremacy in her views to the redemptive spirit of Christian love. By 1850, the family had moved to Maine, where, in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of that year, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), her most celebrated work. Sentimental and realistic by turns, the novel explored the cruelties of chattel slavery in the Upper and Lower South and exposed the moral ironies in the legal, religious, and social arguments of white apologists.

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Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems The Other World Notes on Life and Works Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. A student at the Hartford Female Academy, founded by her sister Catherine, Stowe went on to teach there and at the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati, also founded by her sister after their father, Lyman Beecher, became President of Lane Theological Seminary there. Stowe married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the Seminary, in 1836. They had seven children. He was on staff at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from 1850 to 1853, and then at Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1853 to 1864. In Brunswick Harriet wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act, made in 1850 to criminalize offering help to an escaped slave. She penned thirty books in her lifetime, including

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), writer and reformer Born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was a member of one of the 19th century's most remarkable families. The daughter of the prominent Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher and the sister of Catharine , Henry Ward, and Edward, she grew up in an atmosphere of learning and moral earnestness. She attended her sister Catharine's school in Hartford (1824-27), teaching thereafter at the school. In 1832 she accompanied Catharine and their father to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became president of Lane Theological Seminary and she taught at another school founded by her sister. In Cincinnati she took an active part in the literary and school life, contributing stories and sketches to local journals and compiling a school geography, until the school closed in 1836. That same year she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a clergyman and seminary professor, who encouraged her literary activity and was himself an eminent biblical scholar. She wrote continually and in 1843 published The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims

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Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896) born on Jun 14 US author. "She aroused considerable anti-slavery feeling before the Civil War with "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1852." Search millions of documents for Harriet Beecher Stowe Fishing For Creativity Creative Perfumes Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do." "I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist." I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

30. PAL: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Chapter 3 Early Nineteenth Century Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896).Outside Links Harriet Beecher Stowe Center UTC and American Culture http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/stowe.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 3: Early Nineteenth Century: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe Center UTC and American Culture A Brief Assessment Primary Works ... Home Page Source: Library of Congress A Brief Assessment "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that created this great war." - Abraham Lincoln, 1862 (on meeting HBS) Contributing Editor Jane Tompkins ( Heath Anthology ) has identified three concerns regarding the teaching of Stowe: "(1) the assumption that she is not a first-rate author because she has only recently been recognized and has traditionally been classed as a 'sentimental' author, whose works are of historical interest only; (2) by current standards, Stowe's portrayal of Black people in Uncle Tom's Cabin is racist; and (3) a lack of understanding of the cultural context within which Stowe was working." Ms. Tomkins suggests that we teachers handle the first issue by discussing "how class and gender bias led to the selection of works by white male authors." For the second, we need to explain how assumptions about race have changed over the centuries; though well-meaning, Stowe uses stereotypes. As for the third concern, Ms. Tomkins suggests that we inform the students about the nineteenth century expectations of the purpose of life in the context of the legacy of puritanism. Other pertinent issues are the abolitionist and the women's suffrage movements. Although Stowe's views of Blacks are dated, attention should be given to Stowe's works. She was the most popular American writer of her time and her use of literay realism anticipates the writings of Howells, Twain, and Crane.

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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, 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 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.

32. Beecher Stowe, Harriet (1811-1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe was the daughter of a well known protestant preacher.After her mother died when she was four, her uncle Harriet Foote encouraged her http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p001543.htm

if(self.location==top.location)self.location="../index.htm?biography/p001543.htm"; Beecher Stowe, Harriet WRITER (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) BORN 14 Jun 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut - DIED 1 Jul 1896, Hartford, Connecticut GRAVE LOCATION Andover, Massachusetts: Andover Chapel Cemetery Harriet Beecher Stowe was the daughter of a well known protestant preacher. After her mother died when she was four, her uncle Harriet Foote encouraged her interest in culture and her uncle Samuel Foote made her read Byron and Scott. She worked as a teacher and in 1836 she married the widower Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at her father's seminary. They had seven children. She wrote poems, travel books and novels for children as well as adults. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) was controversial because it dealt with slavery and aroused much public debate. In 1862 she visited president Lincoln and in Europe she became friendly with George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Lady Byron. She met Lady Byron in 1853 during a promotion tour for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and in 1856 the latter told her many details of her separation from Lord Byron. She also met Oliver Wendell Holmes and her work influenced Caroline Norton. In reaction to a memoir by Lord Byron's mistress Teresa Guiccioli, she published "The True Story of Lady Byron" as an article in The Atlantic in 1869. She took sides with the late Lady Byron and accused Byron of an incestuous affair with his half sister Augusta. She also depicted Byron as an unreligious alcoholic and Lady Byron as patient and graceful. She wrote:

33. The Infography About Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Sources recommended by a professor whose research specialty is American authorHarriet Beecher Stowe. http://www.infography.com/content/265159002628.html

Search The Infography: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Six Superlative Sources Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life among the Lowly. Various editions. Full content available at Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture . http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded. Clarke, Beeton, 1853. Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. Beecher Family Papers, 1822-1903 . http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0509r.htm The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library . http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/ Ohio Historical Society: Harriet Beecher Stowe House . http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/ Other Excellent Sources Knight, Denise, and Nelson, Emmanuel. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1997. Stowe, Charles. Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story of Her Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1911.

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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.

35. STOWE, Harriet Beecher [1811-1896] -- American Abolitionist Author Stowe, Harriet Beecher 18111896 American abolitionist author HarrietBeecher Stowe is a name that will live as long as there are lovers of freedom http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/BEEC114.htm

OAS_AD('Top'); Directory Help Search Donate! Indices: Home Pedigrees ODTs Celebs ... Sources Gallery Annex Misc document.getElementById('FLAG').src = '/~dav4is/COM/loading.gif'; THIS IS A FREE SITE http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/index.html NEWS BEECHER pages Pedigrees ODTs Celebs Sources Gallery Annex A B C ... Z Celebrity Relations STOWE, Harriet Beecher [1811-1896] American abolitionist author Relationship to me: Cousin BEECHER family ODT Contents: Bookmarks (off-site links) Page services Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans During residence in Cincinnati (1833-50) she became an ardent abolitionist; encouraged by her brother and her husband, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, first serialized (1851-52) in the antislavery paper, the National Era, Washington, DC, and in book form in 1852. The book became an important factor in solidifying sentiment in the North against slavery and making the issue a moral one; It had much to do with precipitating the Civil War. Among her other works: Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

36. Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896). Harriet Beecher Stowe. Brief Lecture Notes onUncle Tom s Cabin Mothers in Uncle Tom s America (1997). http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/stowe.htm

Home Literary Movements Timeline American Authors ... American Literature Sites Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Brief Lecture Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin Mothers in Uncle Tom ... 's America (1997). This site at the University of Virginia's Crossroads project contains images from the original publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , definitions, background information about the cult of domesticity, and other materials. Extended primary and secondary bibliography on Stowe by Martha Henning at the Celebration of Women Writers site. Jane Tompkins's guide to teaching Stowe from the Heath Anthology site. Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin page at the University of Wisconsin (1997). A Matthew Brady photograph of Stowe and her two brothers, Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Beecher, taken circa 1861. Photo courtesy of the Celebration of Women Writers Pag e Works Available Online Books Stories and Poems (HTML) Articles (Page images at MOA) Uncle Tom's Cabin HTML at The University of Virginia's E-text Center Gutenberg text Searchable HTML at Bibliomania Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary) (frames) (HTML at Virginia) The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Jewett, 1854)

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38. Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe. American author (18111896) This law inspired HarrietBeecher Stowe to write a serial that appeared in The national Era in 1851 http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/eng/biblio/author/beecher.html

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE American author (1811-1896) Biography: Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Lichtchfiled, Connecticut, the 14th June 1811. Even though being brought up in a puritan way her father was a congregationist minister like Jonathan Edwards and her six brothers ended up like him too she was neither prudish nor religious. However, protestantism played an important role in her life. In 1835 she got married to Clavin Stowe, minister and biblical literature teacher. In 1849, her sixth child dies from cholera, which leaves her in a grieving state. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed by which everybody had to denounce any fugitive slave and hand him/her over to the authorities. This law inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write a serial that appeared in The national Era in 1851: Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book arose controversies which had a determining influence on the Civil War. It has been translated into 32 languages and adapted into a play which was on stage until 1930. In 1856 she published its sequel: Dred, a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

39. Aboard The Underground Railroad-- Harriet Beecher Stowe House--Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, livedin this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/me1.htm

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.

40. Aboard The Underground Railroad-- Harriet Beecher Stowe House--Ohio This house was once the residence of Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896), theinfluential antislavery author who wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/oh1.htm

Harriet Beecher Stowe House Photograph courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society. This house was once the residence of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the influential antislavery author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin . In 1832, Harriet Beecher moved from Litchfield, Connecticut, to Cincinnati with her sister and father, a Congregationalist minister who accepted an offer to teach at the Lane Seminary. Harriet and her sister lived with their father in this house, which was provided by the Seminary, and soon after settling in established the Western Female Institute. In 1833, while teaching at the Western Female Institute, the two sisters published Geography for Children . The following year Harriet Beecher won a prize for "New England Sketch," published in the Western Monthly Magazine . Marrying Calvin Ellis Stowe, a fellow teacher at the Western Female Institute, in 1835, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved out of her father's house and into a nearby home in the Walnut Hills area. In the following years, however, Stowe would be a frequent visitor to this house where she and her family would meet with like-minded antislavery activists. Stowe witnessed the evils of slavery first-hand while touring the neighboring state of Kentucky and visited the home of abolitionist John Rankin in Ripley, Ohio. During her residency in Ohio, she interviewed several former slaves who had escaped to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Many of the characters in

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