Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the seventh of nine children. Her father was the well-known Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and his wife was Roxanne Beecher. Harriet’s mother died when she was 5 years old. The loss of her mother left Harriet feeling very sensitive towards others. All of her seven brothers became ministers but two killed themselves because of inner conflicts with the “severity of their birthright.” The Beechers moved to Cincinnati in 1832 when Lyman Beecher was appointed President of Lane Theological seminary. There, Harriet's sister Catharine founded Western Female Institute, where Harriet taught until her 1836 marriage to Calvin Stowe, a Biblical Literature professor at Lane. She taught at a school for ex-slave children that her family ran.During the first seven years of marriage she had seven children one of whom died at infancy and she wrote pieces for magazines to help out with her husbands 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. Cincinnati was across the river from the slave trade, and she observed
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