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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher 1811-1896 (search)
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher 1811-1896 Author; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe. 1811; sister of Henry Ward Beecher and wife of Rev. Calvin E. Stowe; was educated at Hartford, Conn., and taught school there and at Cincinnati. She married at the latter place when twenty-two years old, and afterwards lived in Andover, Hartford, and Brunswick, Me., also spending much time in Florida. Her most famous work, Uncle Tom's cabin, was first published in thHarriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe. 1811; sister of Henry Ward Beecher and wife of Rev. Calvin E. Stowe; was educated at Hartford, Conn., and taught school there and at Cincinnati. She married at the latter place when twenty-two years old, and afterwards lived in Andover, Hartford, and Brunswick, Me., also spending much time in Florida. Her most famous work, Uncle Tom's cabin, was first published in the Washington National era in 1851. This book is credited with having a most powerful bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. Among her other successful works were Dred; The minister's Wooing; My wife and I; We and our neighbors; Old town folks; Poganuc people; Agnes of Sorrento; Pink and White tyranny, etc. She died in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1896.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
(1879); the Lady or the Tiger? and other stories (1884) ; The late Mrs. Null (1886); The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (1886); The Hundredth man (1887) ; The Christmas wreck, and other tales (1887); The bee man of Orn and other fanciful tales (1887); The Dusantes (1888); Amos Kilbright, with other stories (1888); The great War Syndicate (1889); The stories of the three Burglars (1890) ; and The Merry Chanter (1890). Died in Washington, D. C., April 20, 1902. Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher]. Born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811. She was the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher, and in 1836 married Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, having been educated at Hartford, Conn., and at the Litchfield Academy. For a short time she lived at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she learned much about the condition of slaves in the South. Her experience is brought out in Uncle Tom's cabin, which was written for the purpose of convincing the North of the horrors which attended the institution of