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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Summary: Examines the life of writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Explores her early life as a Calvinist, education and early influences. Details her work as an American abolitionist and her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe an abolitionist and great author of the best selling book Uncle Tom's Cabin .Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut. She had one sister and six brother. All of her siblings grew up under a strict environment. Lyman Beecher her father had been a Calvinist preacher.(www.online-literature.com/stowe)
When Stowe was 4 her mother had passed away. When she was 11 she entered into a Seminary at Hartford Connecticut. Which had been run by her older sister. After 4 years at Hartford she later became a teacher in 1833 at the Western Female institute, Stowe and her sister published geography for children. Soon after she got out of teacher she had moved out of her fathers house and had moved to a house in walnut Hills Where she would frequently meet with other like minded abolitionists. (Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author And Abolitionists pg 14)
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