Monday, May 16, 2011
Career
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a teacher at Hartford Female Acadamy and Western Female Institute, but she is better known as an author and abolitionist. In 1850, she wrote her first adult novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a touching story that spoke out against slavery. She also wrote the novel Dred, another anti-slavery book, but Uncle Tom's Cabin is better known. The best-selling novel is centered around a slave called Uncle Tom. He is a firm believer in Christianity. Uncle Tom was sold to a cruel slave owner by the name of Simon Legree, who abused him. He comforts his fellow slaves and encourages them to escape. When two of them do, Tom refuses to tell Simon Legree what happened to them, resulting in him being killed. Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Personal Life
Harriet Beecher Stowe went to school at the Hartford Female Acadamy. The school was founded by her older sister Catherine Beecher. She also taught there later in her life, as well as at the Western Female Institute, also founded by Catherine. The first book she published was a children's geography book in 1833. She was a firm anti-slavery supporter and often spoke out against slavery.
Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfeild, Connecticut, to Roxana and Lyman Beecher. She wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, children's books, and adult novels. She is most famous for her first adult novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an active abolitionist and spoke out against slavery in both America and Europe. In 1836 she married a widower named Calvin Stowe and had seven children. She died on July 1, 1896 at the age of 85 in Hartford, Connecticut.
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