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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher did not just an interesting adult life though. Beecher was born in Litchfield Connecticut on June 14, 1811. Her mother and father, Roxanna and Lyman Beecher, had thirteen children including Harriet, but Roxanna died when Harriet was five. Harriet matriculated in the Pierce Academy which was run by her sister , Catherine, who was a teacher and author. Harriet’s writing gift started at the young age of seven when she was a contestant in a school essay contest. She won the contest which earned praise from her father.
It was not long until Harriet started her own big family. In the year of 1832, when Harriet was twenty-one, she married her true love Calvin Stowe. Calvin was a theology professor, a professor of biblical

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