Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of the eleven children of a prominent Calvinist minister. She lost her mother at five; her elder sister, who founded a seminary for young women in Hartford, taught her and then took her on as a teacher. Settled in Cincinnati, on the free bank of the Ohio where fugitives passed through, she married a professor of theology there and lived there eighteen years; she would have seven children. The author of more than thirty books, including travel narratives and a household manual, she died in Hartford in 1896.

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• NovelUncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe · 1852LiteraturePublic domain