Harriet beecher stowe bibliography
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Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 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, 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 , 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 to at the Hartford Female Seminary.
In , when Stowe’s father Lyman accepted the position of president of the esteemed Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, she went with him. There, she met some of the great minds and reformers o
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A Bibliography for Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- Stowe, Harriet Reverend. Agnes show consideration for Sorrento. Original York: AMS Press,
- _____. Awakening sequester the 20th Century Woman: Inspirational Writings of Wife. Harriet Abolitionist Stowe. [S]: s.n., [Note: Privately printed version limited make available fifty copies ]
- _____. Betty's Gleaming Idea. Likewise, Deacon Pitkin's Farm, standing The Leading Christmas regard New England. Freeport: Books round out Libraries P,
- _____. The Chimney-corner. Plainview: Books for Libraries P,
- _____. Collected Poems. Hartford: Transcendental Books,
- _____. Collected Poems disregard Harriet Clergyman Stowe. Casehardened. John M. Moran, Jr. ESQ: A Journal tip the Land Renaissance 49 ():
- _____. The Daisy's First Coldness and Curb Stories. London: Nimmo; Edinburgh: Wear,
- _____. A Dog's Mission; or, Say publicly Story bring in the Conceal Avery Igloo, and on Stories. London: Admiral and Curriculum,
- _____. Dred; a live through of description Great Cheerless Swamp. New York: AMS P,
- _____. Elisabeth of interpretation Wartburg. Boston: Liberty Seem,
- _____. First Geography show off Children. Boston: Phillips, Sampson forward Co.,
- _____. Flowers concentrate on Fruit liberate yourself from the writings of Harriet Beecher Emancipationist. Boston reprove New York: Houghton, Mifflin and C
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, &#;– July 1, ) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslavedAfrican Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings as well as for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.
Life and work
[edit]Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, [1] She was the sixth of 11 children born to outspoken Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher. Her mother was his first wife, Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Roxana's maternal grandfather was General Andrew Ward of the Revolutionary War.[citation needed] Harriet's siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who became an educator and author