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  1. The pearl of Orr 's Island ; a story of the coast of Maine. by Stowe. Harriet Beecher. 1811-1896., 1896-01-01
  2. Our Charley : and what to do with him by Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Stowe, 2009-10-26
  3. The May Flower. and miscellaneous writings. by Stowe. Harriet Beecher. 1811-1896., 1883-01-01
  4. Dred; a tale of the great Dismal swamp, together with Anti-slavery tales and papers, and Life in Florida after the war Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Stowe, 2009-10-26
  5. FAMILY BIBLE. With numerous Autograph quotations signed. by Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Mary W. Beecher; Lyman Beecher; Henry Ward B Stowe, 1839-01-01
  6. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories by Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Stowe, 2009-10-26
  7. Religious poems. by Stowe. Harriet Beecher. 1811-1896., 1867-01-01
  8. Sam Lawson 's Oldtown fireside stories. by Stowe. Harriet Beecher. 1811-1896., 1891-01-01
  9. Pink and white tyranny A society novel by Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Stowe, 2009-10-26
  10. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.Pictures and Stories. by Mrs Harriet Beecher [1811 - 1896]. Stowe, 1853
  11. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist (The Library of American Lives and Times) by Ryan P. Randolph, 2004-08
  12. A Picture Book of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler, 2004-09-30
  13. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz, 1994-09-15
  14. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author And Advocate (Signature Lives) by Brenda Haugen, 2005-01

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Famous Creative Women presents. . . Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)born on Jun 14 US author. She aroused considerable anti-slavery
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42. Picture History - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
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43. Fiction: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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This site was created by two student teachers in the UC Davis Division of Education, as part of the Rural Learning Network, a collaborative effort to use technology to link rural schools together. The site features excerpts from Uncle Tom's Cabin and information about Stowe's participation in the cause of the emancipation of slaves. It provides much useful and historical contextual information about the period in which Stowe wrote, as well as many interesting links to the abolitionist movement and personal narratives of slaves. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
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44. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe. American author (18111896) Biography Harriet ElisabethBeecher was born in Lichtchfiled, Connecticut, the 14th June 1811.
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
American author (1811-1896)
Biography:
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Lichtchfiled, Connecticut, the 14th June 1811. Even though being brought up in a puritan way her father was a congregationist minister like Jonathan Edwards and her six brothers ended up like him too she was neither prudish nor religious. However, protestantism played an important role in her life. In 1835 she got married to Clavin Stowe, minister and biblical literature teacher. In 1849, her sixth child dies from cholera, which leaves her in a grieving state.
In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed by which everybody had to denounce any fugitive slave and hand him/her over to the authorities. This law inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write a serial that appeared in The national Era in 1851: Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book arose controversies which had a determining influence on the Civil War. It has been translated into 32 languages and adapted into a play which was on stage until 1930. In 1856 she published its sequel: Dred, a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

45. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Translate this page Harriet Beecher Stowe. Autor (1811-1896). Nacionalidad americana.Biografía Harriet Beecher Stowe ha nacido el 14 de junio de
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Autor (1811-1896).
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The National Era Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe muere el 1 de julio de 1896.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Content: This site is a student project including the novel itself and links to other texts and web sites. Making of America Title: Making of America URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ In: Author: Type: online collection of scanned images Content: This is a collection of books and journals from the 19th century. The pages are scanned and the database is searchable and browseable. There is House and home papers and Woman in sacred history by Stowe available. Title: URL: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/ In: Author: Stephen Railton Type: research project Content: This a a very good web site dealing with "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It provides information to earlier texts that influenced Stowe, the novel itself and the responses to the novel by various groups. A nice feature is the multimedia resources such as songs and movies/theater plays of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The timeline is well done using images of actual newspapers to illustrate the events.

47. Digital Collections - Music - Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. The Red Cross N
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18111896. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.The Red Cross nurse music march song and chorus - Front Cover.
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48. Aboard The Underground Railroad-- Harriet Beecher Stowe House--Ohio
oh1. This house was once the residence of Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896),the influential antislavery author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Photograph courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society. This house was once the residence of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the influential antislavery author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin . In 1832, Harriet Beecher moved from Litchfield, Connecticut, to Cincinnati with her sister and father, a Congregationalist minister who accepted an offer to teach at the Lane Seminary. Harriet and her sister lived with their father in this house, which was provided by the Seminary, and soon after settling in established the Western Female Institute. In 1833, while teaching at the Western Female Institute, the two sisters published Geography for Children . The following year Harriet Beecher won a prize for "New England Sketch," published in the Western Monthly Magazine . Marrying Calvin Ellis Stowe, a fellow teacher at the Western Female Institute, in 1835, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved out of her father's house and into a nearby home in the Walnut Hills area. In the following years, however, Stowe would be a frequent visitor to this house where she and her family would meet with like-minded antislavery activists. Stowe witnessed the evils of slavery first-hand while touring the neighboring state of Kentucky and visited the home of abolitionist John Rankin in Ripley, Ohio. During her residency in Ohio, she interviewed several former slaves who had escaped to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Many of the characters in

49. Aboard The Underground Railroad-- Harriet Beecher Stowe House--Maine
Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, livedin this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous novel
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Harriet Beecher Stowe House
NHL-NPS photograph Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, lived in this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, to a notable Congregational minister and his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Cincinnati, Ohio , in 1832, where she taught at the Western Female Institute. While living in Cincinnati, she met numerous fugitive slaves and traveled to Kentucky where she experienced the brutality of slavery first-hand. It was also in Cincinnati that Harriet Beecher met her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, a teacher at the Western Female Institute. In 1850, Calvin Stowe accepted a teaching position at Bowdoin College and the couple moved to Brunswick. Harriet Beecher Stowe was encouraged to write by her husband and was a published author before moving to Maine. Based upon her experiences while visiting Kentucky and her interviews with fugitive slaves, Stowe started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin upon her arrival in Brunswick. Many of the characters in her book mirrored real-life individuals such as Josiah Henson, a fugitive slave who escaped from Kentucky to Canada along the Underground Railroad with his wife and two children.

50. Welcome To The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom'sCabin, which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the
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Introduction Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin , which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold over 10,000 copies in the first week and was a best seller of its day. After the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , Stowe became an internationally acclaimed celebrity and an extremely popular author. In addition to novels, she wrote non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects including homemaking and the raising of children, and religion. She wrote in an informal conversational style, and presented herself as an average wife and mother. Harriet Beecher Stowe as a writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing career spanned 51 years, during which she published 30 books and countless shorter pieces. Harriet made time for writing in her life while she was busy raising seven children and managing a household. She was fortunate in having the support of her husband Calvin Stowe who always encouraged his wife in her career. This kind of support from a husband was unusual at the time when women were not expected to have a career outside the home.

51. - Great Books -
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (18111896), American writer and philanthropist,seventh child of Lyman and Roxana (Foote) Beecher
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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
The Mayflower The National Era , an anti-slavery paper of Washington, D.C. the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or, Life among the Lowly.
The publication in book form (March 20, 1852) was a factor which must be reckoned in summing up the moving causes of the war for the Union. The book sprang into unexampled popularity, and was translated into at least twenty-three tongues. Mrs Stowe used the reputation thus won in promoting a moral and religious enmity to slavery. She reinforced her story with A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she accumulated a large number of documents and testimonies against the great evil; and in 1853 she made a journey to Europe, devoting herself especially to creating an entente cordiale between Englishwomen and Americans on the question of the day. In 1856 she published a Tale of the Dismal Swamp , in which she threw the weight of her argument on the deterioration of a society resting on a slave basis. The establishment of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 gave her a constant vehicle for her writings, as did also

52. Early American Fiction--Adams Biography--Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher]
Page 365. Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher . Ct., 18111896.Wife of C. E. Stowe, supra, and daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra .
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From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors , 4th edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901): Page 365
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher] Ct., 1811-1896. Wife of C. E. Stowe, supra, and daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra See Life of, by her Son; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1882, August and September, 1896; The Century Magazine, September, 1896; New England Magazine, September, 1896; The Forum, August, 1896; The Outlook, July 25, 1896; Life of, by Mrs. Fields, supra. Fo. Hou
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53. EAF Authors -- Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
(18111896) Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, intoone of the most prominent religious families in the United States.
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EAF Authors: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
(1811-1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, into one of the most prominent religious families in the United States. She moved to Cincinnati in 1836 upon marrying the Rev. Calvin Stowe, and to Brunswick, Maine in 1850. Her most famous work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was serialized in 1851-1852 in the antislavery newspaper The National Era and published in volume form in Boston in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin went on to sell half-a-million copies in the United States within five years and was translated into twenty languages. Her other works encompass fiction, travelogues, poetry, and biography, and include The Minister's Wooing, The Mayflower, and Dred.
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54. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) Author, reformerLiving in Cincinnati when her husband was a professor at
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author, reformer
Living in Cincinnati when her husband was a professor at the Lane Seminary, Harriet Beecher Stowe came in contact with slaves escaping northward and learned about their lives in the South. After passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, she began writing the manuscript that became Uncle Tom's Cabin , which was serialized in the National Era before it was published as a book in 1852. Its success was immediate; the book sold more than three hundred thousand copies during its first year of publication. When the story of Uncle Tom was adapted as a play in 1853, this portrait was commissioned by Alexander H. Purdy, owner of the National Theatre in New York, for display at the theater where the play was produced. Stowe's modest appearance was surprising to many. When she and Abraham Lincoln met at the White House in 1862, during the Civil War, he is reported to have said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
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Oil on canvas, 1853

55. Harriet Beecher Stowe Collection - Nalanda Digital Libray
Harriet Beecher Stowe(18111896) Nalanda Digital Library , as a partof its E-text Conversion Project (ECP), has converted her book
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Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)
Nalanda Digital Library , as a part of its E-text Conversion Project (ECP , has converted her book UNCLE TOM S CABIN into 'pdf' format for easy reading on the reading console. Click here to get it. Profile:
Born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the most popular American writers of the 19th century. Today she is best known for her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin , which was printed in over 40 languages, but she also produced several other novels and numerous short stories. She often took inspiration from her experiences growing up in a large, devoutly religious family in Protestant New England. Stowe's father, Lyman Beecher, was a Congregational minister, known for his evangelical sermons and moral reforms; Roxana Foote Beecher, mother of Stowe's eight full siblings, was a well-read and educated woman in an age when few women were literate. She died when Stowe was four, leaving Catharine, her oldest daughter, to fill the maternal role for Stowe for the rest of her life.
Born into an intelligent and ambitious family, Stowe received an unusually rich education for a girl. She read avidly in her father's study any material she could find: old sermons, theological texts, and a tattered old copy of Arabian Nights. She benefitted from the pioneering spirit of her sister Catharine, a believer in equal educational opportunities for women, who opened a school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut. Stowe studied and later taught at her sister's seminary, learning such subjects as math, history, geography, logic, moral philosophy, and Latin. Stowe's religious and moral education progressed as well, and at the age of thirteen, she confessed to her father that she had experienced conversion after one of his sermons. Religion was a powerful force throughout her life, a theme running through her writing, and the source for continuous self-investigation and dissatisfaction with the state of her soul.

56. The Classic Text: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe Signature. Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896). The Writings of Harriet BeecherStowe With Biographical Introductions, Portraits and Other Illustrations.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe: With Biographical Introductions, Portraits and Other Illustrations . Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1896. 16 Volumes.
Call Number: (RARE) PS 2950 .E96a
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L imited edition of 250 copies, signed by the author. The Riverside Press of Cambridge, founded by Henry O. Houghton in 1852, was noted for the quality of its distinguished American Literature series. This presentation of Stowe's works, issued posthumously, includes an inserted page signed by the author on January 4, 1896 with the printed inscription, "The author's autograph, written especially for this edition just a few months before her death." V olumes one and two of this collection include a Biographical Sketch of Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin , and Key-, and an essay "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Charles Dudley Warner. A prominent essayist, Warner was a Stowe family friend best known for his collaboration with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age. He published his famous essay on the work's history simultaneously in The Atlantic Monthly , a journal to which Stowe had contributed frequently.

57. The Classic Text: Harriet Beecher Stowe
185k. Stowe Text. Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896). Dred; A Tale ofthe Great, Dismal Swamp. Boston Sampson and Company, 1856. Call
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Dred; A Tale of the Great, Dismal Swamp . Boston: Sampson and Company, 1856.
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A nother polemical anti-slavery novel, Dred was also based on real accounts. Because of the controversy surrounding the accuracy of Uncle Tom's Cabin 's depiction of slavery, Stowe decided to document her sources from the beginning. Rather than publishing a Key as she had for the prior work, she included appendices of citations within the original text. Dred , despite its similarity to Uncle Tom's Cabin , did not attain the earlier work's popularity. The Bible Homer Aristophanes Virgil ... NEXT
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58. The San Antonio College LitWeb Harriet Beecher Stowe Home Page
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Page ( 18111896 ) Major Works Uncle Tom'sCabin ( 1851-52 ). On Line. from Bibliomania. Norton Critical
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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
On Line
Oldtown Folks
Poganuk People
About Stowe Girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe from Celebration of Women Writers. Harriet Beecher Stowe from Sunshine for Women. Back to Women's Literature Back to American Literature I

59. The Civil War . The War . Biographies Of Key Figures . Stowe | PBS
Scott William Tecumseh Sherman Harriet Beecher Stowe George Templeton Strong JebStuart Harriet Tubman Sam Watkins Walt Whitman Eli Whitney. Civilian. 18111896.
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Sam Watkins ... Eli Whitney Civilian Connecticut Author Her popular novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a decade before the Civil War, helped change the way many Americans felt about slavery, and is forever linked to the abolitionist "fever." Daughter of a strict Calvinist minister, Harriet Beecher later married a professor who encouraged her to write the book after they moved to Maine. Abraham Lincoln allegedly called her "the little lady who made this big war."

60. Today In History: June 5
George Sand. Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) WilburH. 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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The African-American Experience in Ohio: 1850-1920
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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