Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe is a wonderfully talented author and public figure. Her most notable work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was originally published in a newspaper in 1851. It focusses around Eliza, a slave who escapes to Canada with her son, and Tom, who is sold south. The books was incredibly successful, translated into 60 languages, and helped bring attention the the truth of slavery. It is even been said to have laid the groundwork for the Civil War. Her main passion was writing and she used literature and books to tell stories that needed to be told, saying: “It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” She was also able to speak out in a time when being heard was hard. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut to Rev. Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote Beecher. Her Father was a religion teacher at Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy and her mother died when Stowe was only five. She is the sixth of eleven children. As a young child Stowe and she siblings were pushed to be better and help change to word. It was an expectation that Stowe and her brothers and sisters would shape the world. Stowe’s half
It was here that she met Calvin Stowe, a theology professor. On January 6, 1836 she married Calvin. They had seven children, one son died at eighteen months old from cholera. The death of her son hit her hard, she was truly hurt but it helped motivate her to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she even said: “Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.” She later moved to Brunswick, Maine when her husband got a job at Bowdoin College. When her husband became a theology professor at Andover Theological Seminary the family moved to Andover, Massachusetts. When her husband retired they moved again to Hartford, Connecticut. Here Stowe built a dream house with friends and