Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/stoʊ/; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author andabolitionist. She came from the religiousBeecher family and wrote the popular novelUncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced byenslavedAfrican Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and inGreat Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in theAmerican North, while provoking widespread anger in theSouth. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings as well as for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born inLitchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811.[1] She was the sixth of 11 children[2] born to outspokenCalvinist preacherLyman Beecher. Her mother was his first wife, Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Roxana's maternal grandfather was General Andrew Ward of theRevolutionary War.[3] Harriet's siblings included a sister,Catharine Beecher, who became an educator and author, as well as brothers who became ministers, includingHenry Ward Beecher, who became a famous preacher and abolitionist,Charles Beecher, andEdward Beecher.[4]
Harriet enrolled in theHartford Female Seminary run by her older sister Catharine, where she received a traditional academic education – rather uncommon for women at the time – with a focus in theclassics, languages, and mathematics. Among her classmates was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonymFanny Fern.[5]
In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved toCincinnati, Ohio, to join her father, who had become the president ofLane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined theSemi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters,Caroline Lee Hentz,Salmon P. Chase (future governor of Ohio andUnited States Secretary of the Treasury under PresidentAbraham Lincoln),Emily Blackwell, and others.[6] Cincinnati's trade and shipping business on theOhio River was booming, drawing numerous migrants from different parts of the country, including manyescaped slaves, bounty hunters seeking them, and Irish immigrants who worked on the state's canals and railroads. In 1829,the Irish attacked Blacks, wrecking areas of the city, trying to push out these competitors for jobs. Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks, and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. Riots took place againin 1836 and1841, driven also bynative-born anti-abolitionists.[citation needed]
Harriet was also influenced by theLane Debates on Slavery. The biggest event ever to take place at Lane, it was the series of debates held on 18 days in February 1834, betweencolonization and abolition defenders, decisively won byTheodore Weld and other abolitionists. Elisabeth attended most of the debates.[7]: 171 Her father and the trustees, afraid of more violence from anti-abolitionist whites, prohibited any further discussions of the topic. The result was amass exodus of the Lane students, together with a supportive trustee and a professor, who moved as a group to the newOberlin Collegiate Institute after its trustees agreed, by a close and acrimonious vote, to accept students regardless of "race", and to allow discussions of any topic.
It was in the literary club at Lane that she met Rev.Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower who was a professor of Biblical Literature at the seminary.[8] The two married at the Seminary on January 6, 1836.[9] The Stowes had seven children, including twin daughters.[10]
TheCongress passed theFugitive Slave Act of 1850, prohibiting assistance to fugitives and strengthening sanctions even in free states. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family toBrunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching atBowdoin College. Theirhome near the campus is now protected as a National Historic Landmark.[11] The Stowes were ardent critics of slavery and supported theUnderground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. One fugitive from slavery,John Andrew Jackson, wrote of hiding with Stowe in her house in Brunswick as he fled to Canada in his narrative titledThe Experience of a Slave in South Carolina (London: Passmore & Albaster, 1862).[12]
Stowe claimed to have had a vision of a dying slave during a communion service at Brunswick's First Parish Church, which inspired her to write his story.[13] What also likely allowed her to empathize with slaves was the loss of her eighteen-month-old son, Samuel Charles Stowe. She noted, "Having experienced losing someone so close to me, I can sympathize with all the poor, powerless slaves at the unjust auctions. You will always be in my heart Samuel Charles Stowe".[14] On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote toGamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly anti-slavery journalThe National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: "I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak ... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent".[15]
Daguerreotype portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
Shortly after in June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment ofUncle Tom's Cabin was published in serial form in the newspaperThe National Era. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was a Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly".[1] Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852.[15] For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid $400.[16]Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies.[17] Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed byHammatt Billings.[18] In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies.[19] By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at37+1⁄2 cents each to stimulate sales.[20] Sales abroad, as in Britain where the book was a great success, earned Stowe nothing as there was no international copyright agreement in place during that era.[21] In 1853, Stowe undertook a lecture tour of Britain and, to make up the royalties that she could not receive there, the Glasgow New Association for the Abolition of Slavery set up Uncle Tom's Offering.[22]
According to Daniel R. Vollaro, the goal of the book was to educate Northerners on the realistic horrors of the things that were happening in the South. The other purpose was to try to make people in the South feel more empathetic towards the people they were forcing into slavery.[23] The book's emotional portrayal of the effects of slavery on individuals captured the nation's attention. Stowe showed that slavery touched all of society, beyond the people directly involved as masters, traders and slaves. Her novel added to the debate about abolition and slavery, and aroused opposition in the South. In the South, Stowe was depicted as out of touch, arrogant, and guilty of slander, as she had never visited the South and had never seen a plantation. Within a year, 300 babies in Boston alone were namedEva (one of the book's characters), and a play based on the book opened in New York in November.[24] Southerners quickly responded with numerous works of what are now calledanti-Tom novels, seeking to portray Southern society and slavery in more positive terms. Many of these were bestsellers, although none matched the popularity of Stowe's work, which set publishing records.[citation needed]
After the start of theCivil War, Stowe traveled to the capital, Washington, D.C., where she met President Abraham Lincoln on November 25, 1862.[25] Stowe's daughter, Hattie, reported, "It was a very droll time that we had at the White house I assure you ... I will only say now that it was all very funny – and we were ready to explode with laughter all the while".[26] What Lincoln said is a minor mystery. Her son later reported that Lincoln greeted her by saying, "so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war",[27] but this story has been found to be apocryphal.[23] Her own accounts are vague, including the letter reporting the meeting to her husband: "I had a real funny interview with the President".[26]
In 1857, a group foundedThe Atlantic Monthly (later renamedThe Atlantic) at a dinner party at the Parker House Hotel in Boston. Stowe was invited to the dinner party but declined because it served alcohol. She signed the manifesto that set out the goals of the paper,[28] andThe Atlantic today credits her as one of its founders.[29]
Stowe wrote several articles and short stories that were published inThe Atlantic Monthly. One of them, an article entitled "The True Story of Lady Byron’s Life", was published in the September 1869 issue.[30] In it, she alleged thatLord Byron had an affair with his half-sister. Her popularity declined in England after the publication of the article.[31]
In 1868, Stowe became one of the first editors ofHearth and Home magazine, one of several new publications appealing to women; she departed after a year.[32] Stowe campaigned for the expansion of married women's rights, arguing in 1869 that:[33]
[T]he position of a married woman ... is, in many respects, precisely similar to that of the negro slave. She can make no contract and hold no property; whatever she inherits or earns becomes at that moment the property of her husband ... Though he acquired a fortune through her, or though she earned a fortune through her talents, he is the sole master of it, and she cannot draw a penny ... [I]n the Englishcommon law a married woman is nothing at all. She passes out of legal existence.
Stowe purchased property inMandarin nearJacksonville, Florida. In response to a newspaper article in 1873, she wrote, "I came to Florida the year after the war and held property inDuval County ever since. In all this time I have not received even an incivility from any native Floridian".[34]
Stowe is controversial for her support ofElizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, whose grandfather had been a primary enforcer of theHighland Clearances, the transformation of the remote Highlands of Scotland from a militia-based society to an agricultural one that supported far fewer people. The newly homeless moved to Canada, where very bitter accounts appeared. It was Stowe's assignment to refute them using evidence the Duchess provided, in Letter XVII Volume 1 of her travel memoirSunny Memories of Foreign Lands.[35] Stowe was criticized for her seeming defense of the clearances.[36]
In the 1870s, Stowe's brotherHenry Ward Beecher was accused of adultery, and became the subject of a national scandal. Unable to bear the public attacks on her brother, Stowe again fled to Florida but asked family members to send her newspaper reports.[37] Through the affair, she remained loyal to her brother and believed he was innocent.[38]
After her return to Connecticut, Mrs. Stowe was among the founders of the Hartford Art School, which later became part of theUniversity of Hartford.
Following the death of her husband, Calvin Stowe, in 1886, Harriet started rapidly to decline in health. By 1888,The Washington Post reported that as a result of dementia the 77-year-old Stowe started writingUncle Tom's Cabin over again. She imagined that she was engaged in the original composition, and for several hours every day she industriously used pen and paper, inscribing passages of the book almost exactly word for word. This was done unconsciously from memory, the author imagining that she composed the matter as she went along. To her diseased mind the story was brand new, and she frequently exhausted herself with labor that she regarded as freshly created.[39]
Mark Twain, a neighbor of Stowe's in Hartford, recalled her last years in the following passage of his autobiography:
Her mind had decayed, and she was a pathetic figure. She wandered about all the day long in the care of a muscular Irish woman. Among the colonists of our neighborhood the doors always stood open in pleasant weather. Mrs. Stowe entered them at her own free will, and as she was always softly slippered and generally full of animal spirits, she was able to deal in surprises, and she liked to do it. She would slip up behind a person who was deep in dreams and musings and fetch a war whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes. And she had other moods. Sometimes we would hear gentle music in the drawing-room and would find her there at the piano singing ancient and melancholy songs with infinitely touching effect.[40]
Multiple landmarks are dedicated to the memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and are located in several states including Ohio, Florida, Maine and Connecticut. The locations of these landmarks represent various periods of her life such as her father's house where she grew up and where she wrote her most famous work.
TheHarriet Beecher Stowe House inCincinnati, Ohio, is the former home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Seminary. Her father was a preacher who was greatly affected by the pro-slaveryCincinnati Riots of 1836. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here until her marriage. It is open to the public and operated as a historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Lane Seminary and the Underground Railroad. The site also presents African-American history.[43]
In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered inMandarin, Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidatedJacksonville, on theSt. Johns River. Stowe wrotePalmetto Leaves while living in Mandarin, arguably an eloquent piece of promotional literature directed at Florida's potential Northern investors at the time.[44] The book was published in 1873 and describes Northeast Florida and its residents. In 1874, Stowe was honored by the governor of Florida as one of several northerners who had helped Florida's growth after the war. In addition to her writings inspiring tourists and settlers to the area, she helped establish a church and a school, and she helped promote oranges as a major state crop through her own groves.[45] The school she helped establish in 1870 was an integrated school in Mandarin for children and adults. This predated the national movement toward integration by more than a half century. The marker commemorating the Stowe family is located across the street from the former site of their cottage. It is on the property of the Community Club, at the site of a church where Stowe's husband once served as a minister. TheChurch of our Saviour is anEpiscopal Church founded in 1880 by a group of people who had gathered for Bible readings with Professor Calvin E. Stowe and his famous wife. The house was constructed in 1883 which contained theStowe Memorial stained glass window, created byLouis Comfort Tiffany.[46]
TheHarriet Beecher Stowe House inBrunswick, Maine, is where Stowe lived when she wroteUncle Tom's Cabin. Her husband was teaching theology at nearbyBowdoin College, and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication. FutureCivil War general, and later Governor,Joshua Chamberlain was then a student at the college and later described the setting. "On these occasions", Chamberlain noted, "a chosen circle of friends, mostly young, were favored with the freedom of her house, the rallying point being, however, the reading before publication, of the successive chapters of herUncle Tom's Cabin, and the frank discussion of them".[citation needed] In 2001, Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house. It is now open to the public.
TheHarriet Beecher Stowe House inHartford,Connecticut, is the house where Stowe lived for the last 23 years of her life. It was next door to the house of fellow authorMark Twain. In this 5,000 sq ft (460 m2) cottage-style house, there are many of Beecher Stowe's original items and items from the time period. In the research library, which is open to the public, there are numerous letters and documents from the Beecher family. The house is open to the public and offers house tours on the hour.[47]
In 1833, during Stowe's time inCincinnati, the city was afflicted with a seriouscholera epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit toWashington, Kentucky, a major community of the era just south ofMaysville. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville. Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also includedHenry Clay andDaniel Webster.[48]
The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement atDresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east ofAlgonac, Michigan. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration forUncle Tom's Cabin.[49]
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Men of our Times; or, Leading Patriots of the Day. Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. Hartford, Conn.; New York: Hartford Publishing Co.; J.D. Denison. 1868. (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.)
Bible Heroines, Being Narrative Biographies of Prominent Hebrew Women in the Patriarchal, National, and Christian Eras, Giving Views of Women in Sacred History, as Revealed in the Light of the Present Day. New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 1878. (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.)
A Dog's Mission; or, The Story of the Old Avery House and Other Stories. New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert. 1880. (Collection of children's stories consisting of "A Dog's Mission", "Lulu's Pupil", "The Daisy's First Winter", "Our Charley", "Take Care of the Hook", "A Talk about Birds", "The Nest in the Orchard" AND "The Happy Child".) (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.)
He's Coming Tomorrow. Boston: James H. Earle. [published between 1889 and 1883]. (Digital copy of 1901 edition published by Fleming N. Revell hosted byArchive.org.)
Uncle Sam's Emancipation; Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline; and Other Sketches. Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard. 1853. (Consists of the following sketches: "Account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe and her Family", "Uncle Sam's Emancipation", "Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline", "A Scholar's Adventure in the Country", "Children", "The Two Bibles", "Letter from Maine, No. 1", "Letter from Maine, No. 2", "Christmas; or, The Good Fairy".) (Digital copy hosted atHathiTrust.)
Evergreen: Being the Smaller Works of Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe. Belfast: Alex. S. Mayne. 1853. (A collection of works consisting of: "The New Year's Gift", "The Bible, The Source of Sure Comfort", "Make to Yourselves Driends", "Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline", "So Many Calls", "Learn of Children", "Anti-slavery Meeting in Glasgow, Letter from Mrs. Stowe to Dr Wardlaw".)
Queer Little People. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1868. (Published under the name of Christopher Crowfield.) (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.) (Consists of the following stories: "The Hen That Hatched Ducks", "The Nutcracker of Nutcracker Lodge", "The History of Tip-Top", "Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket", "Mother Magpie's Micschief", "The Squirrels that Live in a House", "Hum, the Son of Buz", "Our Country Neighbors", "Our Dogs", "Dogs and Cats", "Aunt Esther's Rules", "Aunt Esther's Stories", "Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs" and "Country Neighbors Again".)
Oldtown Fireside Stories. Boston: J.R. Osgood. 1872. (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.) (Consists of the stories: "The Ghost in the Mill", "The Sullivan Looking-Glass", "The Minister's Housekeeper", "The Widow's Bandbox", "Captain Kidd's Money","'Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher'", "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brownhouse".)
Betty's Bright Idea [and Other Stories]. New York: J.B. Ford & Company. 1876. (In addition to the title story, the book includes "Deacon Pitkin's Farm" and "The First Christmas of New England".) (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.)
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1887. (Digital copy hosted byHathiTrust.) (Consists of: "The Ghost in the Mill", "The Sullivan Looking-Glass", "The Minister's Housekeeper", "The Widow's Bandbox", "Captain Kidd's Money","'Mis' Elderkin's pitcher'", "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House", "Colonel Eph's Shoebuckles", "The Bull-Fight", "How to Fight the Devil", "Laughin' in Meetin'", "Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story", "The Parson's Horse-Race", "Oldtown Fireside Talks of the Revolution" and "A Student's Sea Story".)
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