Post on 19-May-2015
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Beginning
• Born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut
• Father: Lyman Beecher• Mother: Roxana Foote
Beecher• Seventh of eight children• Baptized Harriet Elizabeth
Beecher
Growing Up
• Mother died when Harriet was four• Father preached anti-slavery
sermons throughout Harriet's childhood
• Hartford Female Academy was her first school
• Loved to read books and wanted to write her own novel.
Cincinnati
• Father became President of a Theological Seminary
• Family moved to Cincinnati• Harriet began teaching• Joined the Literary Society• Met Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe
Calvin Ellis Stowe
• Met Harriet at the Literary Society• Wife passed away two years after
their meeting• Harriet and Calvin were wed in 1836• Had a large family together• Professor at Bowdoin College in
Maine
Children
• Twins: Eliza and Harriet• Henry• Fredrick• Georgiana• Samuel Charles• Charles
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Writing
• Began writing with her book The Mayflower
• Wrote as a freelancer for local papers
• Wrote installments for the antislavery journal National Era
• Installments were called Life among the Lowly
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Life Among the Lowly was published as Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1842
• Instantly a bestseller• Told the cruelty that slaves faced
everyday as plantation workers• Opened the eyes of many Americans
“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”
The Civil War
• 1861 the war broke out• Many believe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
contributed to the outbreak• Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet
with “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War. ”
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The End
• Lived in Hartford, Connecticut during her last 23 summers
• Wintered in Mandarin, Florida
• Died on July 1, 1896• Buried on the grounds of
Phillip Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present, and the future are really
one: they are today.