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  Harriet Beecher Stowe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Litchfield, Connecticut and raised primarily in Hartford, she was the daughter of Lyman Beecher, an abolitionist Congregationalist preacher from Boston and Roxana Foote Beecher, and the sister of renowned minister, Henry Ward Beecher.
In 1836 Harriet Beecher married Calvin Stowe, a clergyman and widower.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio is the former home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Seminary.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe - MSN Encarta
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer and abolitionist, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a forceful indictment of slavery and one of the most powerful novels of its kind in American literature.
Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was the daughter of the liberal clergyman Lyman Beecher and the sister of five clergymen, including the popular preacher Henry Ward Beecher.
Stowe’s later fiction was great in volume but uneven in quality, her best work lying in her stories of the local life of her own Puritan New England.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of 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.
In 1846, Harriet was diagnosed with exhaustion from pregnancy and childbearing.
Harriet outlived her husband by ten years, dying in 1896 at her home in Hartford at the age of eighty-five.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher.
Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine: her earliest publication was a geography for children, issued under her sister's name in 1833.
In writing the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the underground railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnatti, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/stowe/StoweHB.html   (433 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
The American writer and philanthropist Harriet Beecher Stowe, seventh child of Lyman and Roxana (Foote) Beecher, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut on the 14th of June 1811.
Catherine Beecher, who was eager to establish what should be in effect a pioneer college for women, accompanied him; and with her went Harriet as an assistant, taking an active part in the literary and school life, contributing stories and sketches to local journals and compiling a school geography.
Stowe was prepared for the great work which came to her, bit by bit, as a religious message which she must deliver.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe - People of Connecticut
Harriet was an avid writer, contributing to periodicals and local publications, in addition to her poetry, children's books, and novels.
Harriet saw the power of the pen as her way to force the nation to look at its immoral system.
Harriet Beecher Stowe died in 1896 at Hartford, Connecticut.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
Harriet Beecher Stowe: the "little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Which Abraham Lincoln apparently did not say to Stowe when she visited the White House in 1862 since Joan Hedrick notes there is no contemporary record of the meeting between president and author.
Harriet Beecher shared and fully participated in the intellectual and religious environment of her father, Lyman Beecher's household.
Stowe's ability to speak on women's issues was finally and fatally hamstrung by the feminist Victoria Woodhull's attack on Henry Ward Beecher which precipitated his trials for adultery.
www.bookwire.com /bbr/life/harriet-breecher.html   (1056 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe American Civil War Women Author
Stowe was fortunate to have begun her career before writing had become sufficiently remunerative in the United States to allow men to dominate the profession.
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, rendered her tragic subject in a style that combined heartfelt conviction with endless documentary detail, and the book made her the best-known author of her generation.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography and Works
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness.
In 1834 Stowe began her literary career when she won a prize contest of the Western Monthly Magazine, and soon she was a regular contributor of stories and essays.
Stowe's mental faculties failed in 1888, two years after the death of her husband.
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The daughter of Lyman Beecher, pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet grew up in an atmosphere of New England Congregational piety and, like all the Beechers, early developed an interest in theology and in schemes for improving humanity.
Harriet’s brothers were violently opposed to slavery, and she had seen its effects in Kentucky and had aided a runaway slave.
Stowe visited Europe in 1853 numerous honors were bestowed on her.
www.bartleby.com /65/st/Stowe-Ha.html   (542 words)

  
 Fiction: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh child of Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and his wife, Roxana.
Wen Harriet was five, her mother died of tuberculosis and her older sister Catharine became her surrogate mother.
Educated at Litchfield Female Academy, Harriet, by the age of twelve, was admired for the easy fluency of her writing.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/stowe.htm   (526 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811 in into one of America's most notable religious families.
Harriet taught in Catherine's school and wrote a children's geography text, which was her first publication, though the first edition was issued under her sisters name.
Harriet created memorable characters who portrayed the inhumanity of slavery making her readers understand that slaves were people who were being mistreated and made to suffer at the hands of their masters.
www.momscape.com /articles/stowe.htm   (1367 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a large family.
Harriet herself was the seventh child of her parents, Lyman and Roxana Beecher.
Stowe was named after her aunt, Harriet Foote, who influenced deeply her thinking, especially with her strong belief in culture.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hbstowe.htm   (1416 words)

  
 Welcome to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, where her father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), was a prominent and influential Congregational minister.
Catharine Beecher (1800-1878) founded many schools for young women throughout the country and was a prolific author while her youngest sister, Isabella (1822-1907), became active in the women's suffrage movement.
Charles Stowe was ordained as a minister in 1878.
www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org /life   (2717 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction: ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the most popular American book of the 19th century.
Stowe conceived the idea of the novel -- in a vision of an old, ragged slave being beaten -- as she participated in a church service.
Stowe's novel was not originally intended as an attack on the South; in fact, Stowe had visited the South, liked southerners, and portrayed them kindly.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Stowe also exploited the philosophical possibilities of the novel as a genre, discussing and dramatizing in fictional form complex theological, moral, and political issues of her day.
Stowe can be usefully compared to Emerson, whose vision of ideal existence, as put forward in essays like "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar" is sharply at odds with hers.
Hawthorne is another author whom it is interesting to compare with Stowe: His view of slavery was diametrically opposed to Stowe's-- he condoned it--and his approach to writing, as well as to life in general, is skeptical where hers is believing; self-doubting where hers is self-trusting; detached and withdrawn where hers is active and participatory.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/stowe.html   (831 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh of nine children.
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.
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.
www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/stowe1.htm   (414 words)

  
 OHS - Places - Harriet Beecher Stowe House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Stowe House offers cultural events and programming and the House and grounds are available to groups for rental for meetings and special events.
Stowe House is located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Gilbert Avenue (State Route 3 and US Route 22) in in the historic Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, in Hamilton County.
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 eHistory.com: Harriet Beecher Stowe: The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born 6/14/1811 in Litchfield, CT to Dr. Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher.
Harriet was of a mischievous nature-which is evident in a particular story she recounts from her childhood.
Most of Harriet's writings were loosely based on some aspect of her own life For example, in her novel The Minister's Wooing, she draws on her own emotions over the loss of her son Henry who at the age of 19 drowned while swimming in the Connecticut River in New Hampshire while attending Dartmouth.
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 The Beecher Tradition : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 and is probably the most famous of the Beecher daughters.
It was not until the age of thirteen that Harriet was sent to Hartford, Connecticut, to attend a school for girls.
Milton Rugoff says: "At her best, Harriet Beecher Stowe was the first American realist of any consequence and the first to use fiction for a profound criticism of American society, especially its failure to live up to promises of democracy."
newman.baruch.cuny.edu /digital/2001/beecher/harriet.htm   (402 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of thirteen children.
In 1832, Harriet's father was accepted as president of the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinatti, Ohio, so their whole family moved there.
However, Harriet couldn't afford to pay the $500 manufacter's cost, so instead, the publisher paid the manufacturer's cost and she only received 10% of the profits.
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher
She was the wife of Calvin Stowe, a Professor of Religion at Lane Seminary in Ohio, next to the Kentucky border.
Stowe did different was that she published in significant detail Scriptures that slavery is a sin--in essence a sermon.
Stowe thus was persuasive to religious people of that era by her showing mass violation of both Old and New Command principles and commands by Southern slave holders.
medicolegal.tripod.com /stowesummary.htm   (1888 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Harriet was born into one of America's most prominent religious families.
The Beecher family was at the forefront of many reform movements of the 19th century.
Stowe wrote of the evils of slavery so that others could be free.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=154   (374 words)

  
 Harriet Beecher Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Connecticut in 1811, the daughter of Reverend Lyman Beecher, a moral reformer and minister.
In response to the Act, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a novel that exposed the cruelties of slavery and the moral hypocrisy of the legal, social and religious arguments of white slavery proponents.
Stowe continued to publish novels and regional fiction, including several on slavery, but none of her works garnered as much notoriety as Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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 The Classic Text: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Her father Lyman Beecher was a Congregational Minister and brother Henry Ward Beecher became pastor of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church.
Harriet set about writing a polemical novel illustrating the moral responsibility of the entire nation for the cruel system.
Harriet Beecher Stowe received royalties only on the American editions; unauthorized dramatic productions boomed, as did a profusion of artifacts, "Tomitudes," based on the story.
www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg149.htm   (517 words)

  
 IHAS: Poet
Her father Lyman Beecher was a famous preacher and the Founder of Lane Theological Seminary; her brother, the fiery orator Henry Ward Beecher, used his Brooklyn pulpit to affect social reform, and her husband, Calvin Stowe, who had been a disciple of her father, was a noted Biblical scholar.
Stowe's work in a negative light--as naive, patronizing, and overly sentimental--and would use the term Uncle Tom as a pejorative for a white image of the virtuous fl man, the impact of the novel on ante-bellum politics and social thought cannot be underestimated.
Stowe's literary endeavors, the family maintained for some time a plantation in Florida as well as a house in Hartford, CT, where her next-door neighbors were the Samuel Clemenses.
www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/poet/stowe.html   (881 words)

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