Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, one of the many children of Lyman Beecher, a famous Congregationalist minister; several of her brothers became preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, and her sister Catharine was a pioneer in women's education. Harriet studied and then taught at Catharine's school in Hartford. In 1832 the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, across the river from the slave state of Kentucky, where she met people who had escaped slavery. She married Calvin Stowe, a professor of theology, in 1836, and they had seven children; the death of her infant son Samuel in 1849 helped her understand the grief of enslaved mothers separated from their children. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which appeared as a serial and then as a book in 1852. It became the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century and increased opposition to slavery in the North. She wrote many other books and lived in Hartford, near Mark Twain, where she died in 1896.

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Faith: Daughter of the Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher and a deeply religious mother. Source: Wikipedia