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  1. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2009-12-09
  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers (Unforgettable Americans) by Jean Fritz, 1998-11-23
  3. Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2010-08-02
  4. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thrift Edition) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2005-08-01
  5. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2009-12-26
  6. Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2010-10-14
  7. The Pearl of Orr's Island by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2010-06-07
  8. Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Huge collection. (40+ Works) Includes Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Lady Byron Vindicated and more (mobi) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2007-10-06
  9. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick, 1995-06-01
  10. Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2008-11-12
  11. Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 2010-07-12
  12. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist (The Library of American Lives and Times) by Ryan P. Randolph, 2004-08
  13. Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1998-04-15
  14. Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (Library of America) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1982-05-06

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe 18111896. See also Bibliography Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1811-1896
See also: Bibliography 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 the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the underground railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnatti, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state. Following publication of the book, she became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. She wrote A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic; and published a second anti-slavery novel

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stower notes, links to information and all texts available on the web, information English 462/562. Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) 1875) (publisher's dummy; includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe), by Mrs
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Uncle Tom 's America (1997). This site at the University of Virginia's Crossroads project contains images from the original publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , definitions, background information about the cult of domesticity, and other materials.
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Jane Tompkins's guide to teaching Stowe from the Heath Anthology site.
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Stowe and
Uncle Tom's Cabin page at the University of Wisconsin (1997).

3. The Classic Text: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was raised in a Puritan tradition of high moral standard and proselytization. Her father Lyman Beecher was
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H arriet Beecher Stowe was raised in a Puritan tradition of high moral standard and proselytization. Her father Lyman Beecher was a Congregational Minister and brother Henry Ward Beecher became pastor of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church. The Beechers moved to Cincinatti when Lyman Beecher was appointed President of Lane Theological seminary. There, Harriet's sister Catharine founded Western Female Institute, where Harriet taught until her 1834 marriage to widower Calvin Stowe, a Biblical Literature professor at Lane. During the first seven years of marriage she bore five children, writing pieces for magazines to compliment Professor Stowe's meager salary. She won a short story prize from Western Monthly Magazine , and her literary production and skill increased steadily. In 1834, her short-story collection The Mayflower was published. T his Ohio period gave Stowe the impetus to write Uncle Tom's Cabin . Cincinnati was just across the river from the slave trade, and she observed firsthand several incidents which galvanized her to write famous anti-slavery novel. Scenes she observed on the Ohio River, including seeing a husband and wife being sold apart, as well as newspaper and magazine accounts and interviews, contributed material to the emerging plot. The family shared her abolitionist sentiment and was active in hiding runaway slaves. I n 1850 Calvin Stowe was appointed at Bowdoin, and the entire family returned to the Northeast. They reached Boston at the height of the public furor over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated the return of runaway slaves already in the North to their owners. Many former slaves fled to Canada from their homes in New England. Harriet set about writing a polemical novel illustrating the moral responsibility of the entire nation for the cruel system. She forwarded the first episodes to Dr. Bailey, editor of the Washington anti-slavery weekly

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography And Works
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Extensive Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe and a searchable collection of works. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Search all of Harriet Beecher stowe harriet beecher Stowe (18111896), American writer and in the United States. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14
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Search all of Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) , American writer and philanthropist, best-known for the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52). The book was quickly translated into 37 languages and it sold in five years over half a million copies in the United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a controversial Calvinist preacher. Stowe's mother died when she was four. When she was eleven years old, she entered the seminary at Hartford, Connecticut, kept by her elder sister. Four years later she was employed as assistant teacher.
In 1834 Stowe began her literary career when she won a prize contest of the Western Monthly Magazine , and soon she was a regular contributor of stories and essays. Her first book, The Mayflower , appeared in 1843.

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe A Woman Of Many Words. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author, a philanthropist, an abolitionist, and a woman.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe:
A Woman Of Many Words
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and for deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author, a philanthropist, an abolitionist, and a woman. She was a very determined woman, who was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Conneticut. She came from an average family, she performed average in school, and she did not attend college. She was scorned and ridiculed in the South because of her first book in 1852, titled Uncle Tom's Cabin . Other works from Harriet Beecher Stowe include, The Minister's Wooing Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Oldtown Folks (1869), and A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853). Harriet Beecher Stowe hated slavery and showed it in her books. She was a great author, and I think we should all learn from her.
"Slavery is the next worst thing to Hell."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe. External links. Harriet Beecher Stowe s brief biography and works; Biography at FemBio – Notable Women International;
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harriet Beecher Stowe June 14 July 1 ) was an abolitionist , and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery , and which was first published in serial form from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, the National Era , edited by Gamaliel Bailey Her second book was Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Born in Litchfield, Connecticut and raised primarily in Hartford , she was the daughter of Lyman Beecher , an abolitionist Congregationalist preacher from Boston , and the sister of renowned minister, Henry Ward Beecher . In , her family moved to Cincinnati , another hotbed of the abolitionist movement, where her father became the first president of Lane Theological Seminary . There she gained first-hand knowledge of slavery and the Underground railroad and was moved to write Uncle Tom's Cabin , the first major American novel with an African-American hero.

7. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896). Stowe is best remembered for the melodramatic and sentimental Uncle Tom s Cabin , an antislavery novel written in 1851.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Stowe is best remembered for the melodramatic and sentimental "Uncle Tom's Cabin", an antislavery novel written in 1851. This work, which made Stowe famous virtually overnight, intensified North and South antagonism in the pre-Civil War era, making her a hated figure in the South and the darling of the English abolitionists. However, the modern impression of her most famous characterssuch as Uncle Tom, Topsy, Little Eva, and Simon Legree brought to mind by "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are less the products of her work than of the 1852 play by George L. Aiken.

8. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of thirteen children. Her
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of thirteen children. Her father was a Calvinist preacher that expected his sons to be preachers, too. Because of this forced upbringing, two of Harriet's brothers killed themselves. As for her sisters and herself, they were supposed to be good Calvinist women. Harriet's sister, Catherine, founded a seminary called the Hartford Female Seminary, and Harriet attended school there and also taught there after graduation until 1832. In 1832, Harriet's father was accepted as president of the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinatti, Ohio, so their whole family moved there. While in Cincinatti, Harriet made friends with her only true friend, Eliza Tyler. Eliza married a man named Calvin Stowe who was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. However, Eliza died sometime around 1835, a year after Harriet started writing. Harriet comforted Calvin after Eliza's death, and then they decided to get married in sacrament for Eliza in 1836. They had seven children, the first being two twin girls that were named Eliza and Harriet. However, Calvin only received $600 annually for his occupation, and that wasn't enough to support their entire family. So, Harriet wrote when they needed money, receiving $2 per page. In 1843, Harriet published her first book

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10. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin hat einen schlechten Ruf. Der Vorwurf, die Autorin Abraham Lincoln sie "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war!" nannte.
Viele deutsche Generationen machte Uncle Tom's Cabin Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say, stranger, how are ye?" said the aforesaid gentleman, firing an honorary salute of tobacco-juice in the direction of the new arrival. (XI) Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Ann Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl empfehlenswert. bei amazon nachschauen bei amazon nachschauen
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly
. Penguin, 1981. Taschenbuch, 640 Seiten . Wien: Ueberreuter, 2001. Sondereinband, 180 Seiten Uncle Tom's Cabin . Bantam Reissue, 1983. Taschenbuch, 451 Seiten Uncle Tom's Cabin . Jean Fagan Yellin (Herausgeber). Oxford Paperbacks, 1998. Taschenbuch, 572 Seiten Punsch. Ein humoristisches Originalblatt

11. The San Antonio College LitWeb Harriet Beecher Stowe Home Page
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Page. ( 18111896 ). About Stowe Girlhood of Harriet Beecher stowe harriet beecher Stowe from Celebration of Women Writers.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin On Line . from Bibliomania.
Norton Critical Edition, edited by Elizabeth Ammons.
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1853 ). Documentation in defense of the accuracy of Stowe's indictment of slavery in her earlier novel.
Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp
The Minister's Wooing
The Pearl of Orr's Island
Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl
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Oldtown Folks
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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 1896 Lyman Beecher 1775 - 1863 and Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887, Sometime after 1860, Lyman Beecher left Boston to live in
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Sometime after 1860, Lyman Beecher left Boston to live in Brooklyn with his son, Henry Ward Beecher, popular pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church. Though the younger Beecher's ministry of love and redemption contrasted strongly with his father's strict Calvinist philosophy, both he and his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, carried on their father's opposition to slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , rendered her tragic subject in a style that combined heartfelt conviction with endless documentary detail, and the book made her the best-known author of her generation. This image was made around 1861, when Henry Ward Beecher, as editor of the national magazine The Independent , began to call for ever more radical action from Lincoln to end slavery and bring the war to a close. Brady's photograph of two famous siblings and their renowned father record a distinguished American family and three important intellectual leaders. Mathew Brady Studio Albumen silver print (carte de visite), circa 1861

13. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Books And Biography
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, American writer and philanthropist, best-known for the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52). The book was quickly translated into 37 languages and it sold in five years over half a million copies in the United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a controversial Calvinist preacher. Stowe's mother died when she was four. When she was eleven years old, she entered the seminary at Hartford, Connecticut, kept by her elder sister. Four years later she was employed as assistant teacher.
In 1834 Stowe began her literary career when she won a prize contest of the Western Monthly Magazine , and soon she was a regular contributor of stories and essays. Her first book, The Mayflower , appeared in 1843.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous for writing Uncle Tom s Cabin. It is a book about slavery during the 1850 s.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous for writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It is a book about slavery during the 1850's. She was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her pop was a preacher. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1853. She wrote it to tell people about what slavery was like. It became one of the most important books of that time. It sold over 500,000 copies in the United States. 1999, by Greg, third grade BACK

17. Harriet Beecher Stowe
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE by Elizabeth R. Martin. She told the story, and the whole world wept At wrongs and cruelties it had not known.
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by Elizabeth R. Martin
She told the story, and the whole world wept
At wrongs and cruelties it had not known.
These opening phrases of Paul Laurence Dunbar's sonnet to Harriet Beecher Stowe appeared in Century Magazine , November 1898, two years after her death and almost a half century after the publication of her best-know novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , or Life Among the Lowly , in 1852. First serialized in 1851 in the anti-slavery "National Era," the novel achieved phenomenal success with a world-wide audience. Translated into 20 languages, it was acclaimed at home and abroad as "the great American novel." Uncle's Tom Cabin aroused widespread public opinion for the abolition cause but did not bring about a repeal of the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which its story dramatizes in a simple humanization of the indignities and tragedies of that "peculiar institution" of American soil. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the world's best seller of the nineteenth century other than the Bible. Its popularity was swiftly followed in America by a flood of vituperation from the South and pro-slavery adherents in the North. Mrs. Stowe, shocked by this turn of the tide, documented the incidents of her novel in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1853, and identified the real life prototypes of Uncle Tom, Eliza and George Harris, Topsy, Little Eva, and others. Years later, she averred the novel was conceived in a vision and dictated to her by the Lord in Brunswick, Maine.

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George Sand. Harriet Beecher stowe harriet beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Wilbur H. Siebert Collection The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920.
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The Library of Congress Uncle Tom's Cabin In matters of art there is but one rule, to paint and to move. And where shall we find conditions more complete, types more vivid, situations more touching, more original, than in Uncle Tom George Sand
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On June 5 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in the Washington National Era , an abolitionist weekly. Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months. For her story Mrs. Stowe was paid $300. Although the weekly had a limited circulation, its audience increased as reader after reader passed their copy along to another. In March 1852, a Boston publisher decided to issue Uncle Tom's Cabin as a book and it became an instant best seller. Three hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and about 2,000,000 copies were sold worldwide by 1857. For one three month period Stowe reportedly received $10,000 in royalties. Across the nation people discussed the novel and hotly debated the most pressing socio-political issue dramatized in its narrative, slavery. Because Uncle Tom's Cabin so polarized the abolitionist and anti-abolitionist debate, some

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By Barbara Smith The woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father’s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was a very young child; her husband, though an erudite theologian, could not provide financially and suffered bouts of poor health; she lost four children tragically; and she enjoyed the acclaim of the rich and powerful of her generation. In spite of these upheavals, her basic faith in the Lord Jesus Christ held and sustained her. Harriet was born in Connecticut in 1811, the daughter of Lyman Beecher. He was a persuasive preacher, theologian, a founder of the American Bible Society who was active in the anti slavery movement, and the father of thirteen children. Her mother who died when Harriet was four years old, was a woman of prayer, asking the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry. All eventually preached; Henry Ward Beecher, the youngest son became the most prominent. After her mother’s death, Harriet grew close to her sister, Catherine, teaching in her school and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron. When her father became president of Lane Theological Seminary in Ohio, she moved with him and met Calvin Stowe a professor and clergyman who fervently opposed slavery. He was nine years her senior and the widower of a dear friend of hers, Eliza Tyler. Their subsequent marriage in 1836 was born of the common grief they shared. In later years, Mark Twain’s daughter Susy Clemens saw Calvin Stowe merrily reported to her father, “Santa Clause has got loose.”(

20. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Mother, Reformer
sorrowful, especially for mothers who are separated from their children. harriet beecher stowe to Eliza Cabot Follen December 16, 1852.
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"... I HAVE BEEN the mother of seven children, the most beautiful and most loved of whom lies buried near my Cincinnati residence. It was at his dying bed and at his grave that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her. In those depths of sorrow which seemed to me immeasurable, it was my only prayer to God that such anguish might not be suffered in vain. There were circumstances about his death of such peculiar bitterness, of what seemed almost cruel suffering that I felt I could never be consoled for it unless this crushing of my own heart might enable me to work out some great good to others. I allude to this here because I have often felt that much that is in that book had its root in the awful scenes and bitter sorrow of that summer. It has left now, I trust, no trace on my mind except a deep compassion for the sorrowful, especially for mothers who are separated from their children."
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Eliza Cabot Follen
December 16, 1852 HER WORK HER LIFE
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