They were persistently interrogated about the condition of their souls and were expected to have a conversion experience, as they all duly did. She was now at the small private school for girls that her sister Catharine had founded in Hartford, Connecticut. In the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Lyman Beecher had been appointed president of the new Lane Theological Seminary, set up to train ministers to make sure that Protestantism prevailed in the territories opening up in the American West.
In Cincinnati Harriet was confronted with the issue of slavery, as fugitive slaves from the South were sheltered and aided there. It was there too that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a teacher at the Lane Seminary, whom she married in when she was What was really in store was the opposite.
Stowe studied at private schools in Connecticut and worked as a teacher in Hartford for five years until her father moved to Cincinnati in She accompanied him and continued to teach while writing stories and essays.
In , she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, with whom she had seven children. She published her first book, Mayflower, in While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. The book sold some , copies and did much to galvanize public opinion in the North against slavery. Stowe traveled to England in , where she was welcomed as a literary hero. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, she became one of the original contributors to The Atlantic, which launched in November In , when Lincoln announced the end of slavery, she danced in the streets.
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Clemson University. University of North Carolina Press, Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, American Experience, The Abolitionists. Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe maintained that her brother was innocent throughout the subsequent trial. While Stowe is closely associated with New England, she spent a considerable amount of time near Jacksonville, Florida. The Stowe family spent winters in Mandarin, Florida. Stowe died on July 1, , in Hartford, Connecticut.
She was Landmarks dedicated to the life, work and memory of Stowe exist across the eastern United States. In , Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house.
The home is now a museum, featuring items owned by Stowe, as well as a research library. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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