Harriet beecher stowe education

A Celebration of Women Writers

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Primary Sources:

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Agnes of Sorrento. 1862. New York: AMS Press, 1971.
• _____. Awakening of the Twentieth Century Woman: Inspirational Writings of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. [S]: s.n., 1917. [Note: Privately printed edition limited to fifty copies ]
• _____. Betty's Bright Idea. Also, Deacon Pitkin's Farm, and The First Christmas of New England. 1876. Freeport: Books for Libraries P, 1972.
• _____. The Chimney-corner. 1865. Plainview: Books for Libraries P, 1972.
• _____. Collected Poems. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1967.
• _____. Collected Poems of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ed. John M. Moran, Jr. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49 (1967): 1-100.
• _____. The Daisy's First Winter and Other Stories. London: Nimmo; Edinburgh: Gray, 1877.
• _____. A Dog's Mission; or, The Story of the Old Avery House, and other Stories. London: Nelson and Sons, 1880.
• _____. Dred; a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.
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  Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896.

  A Celebration of Women Writers

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  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 1836, Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels. She met and corresponded with people as varied as Lady Byron, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and George Eliot. She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Conneticutt.

  While she wrote at least ten adult novels, Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial. In writing

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  Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South, and inspired pro-slavery copy-cat works in defense of the institution of slavery.

  Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh child of famed Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher. Her famous siblings include elder sister Catherine (11 years her senior), and Henry Ward Beecher, the famous preacher and reformer. Stowe’s mother died when she was five years old and while her father remarried, her sister Catherine became the most pronounced influence on young Harriet’s life. At age eight, she began her education at the Litchfield Female Academy. Later, in 1824, she attended Catherine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary, which exposed young women to many of the same courses available in men’s academies. Stowe’s proclivity for writing was evident in the essays she produced for school.  Stowe became a teacher, working from 1829 to 1832