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| caption      = Stowe circa 1852
| pseudonym    = Christopher Crowfield
| birth_name    = Harriet Elisabeth Beecher
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1811|6|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Litchfield, Connecticut]], United States
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1896|7|1|1811|6|14|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]], Connecticut, United States
| spouse       = Calvin Ellis Stowe
| children     = Eliza Taylor, Harriet Beecher, Henry Ellis, Frederick William, Georgiana May, Samuel Charles, and Charles Edward
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'''Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|oʊ}}; June 14, 1811&nbsp;– July 1, 1896) was an American [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] and author.  She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852). It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the [[Northern United States|American North]], while provoking widespread anger in the [[Southern United States|South]]. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.

==Life and work==
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]], on June 14, 1811.<ref name="ReferenceA">McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 112. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7</ref> She was the seventh of 13 children<ref>{{cite book |title=Harriet Beecher Stowe: a Life |last=Hedrick |first=Joan |year=1994 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location= |isbn=0-19-506639-1 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tl8m84E2iFkC&lpg=PP1&dq=harriet%20beecher%20stowe&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=30 Jun 2011}}</ref> born to outspoken religious leader [[Lyman Beecher]] and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Roxana's maternal grandfather was General Andrew Ward of the Revolutionary War. Her notable siblings included a sister, [[Catharine Beecher]], who became an educator and author, as well as brothers who became ministers: including [[Henry Ward Beecher]], who became a famous preacher and abolitionist, [[Charles Beecher]], and [[Edward Beecher]].<ref>Applegate, Debby (2006). ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher.'' Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42400-6.</ref>

Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her older sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally "male" or academic education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym [[Fanny Fern]].<ref>Warren, Joyce W. ''Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman''. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992: 21. ISBN 0-8135-1763-X</ref>

In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]] to join her father, who had become the president of [[Lane Theological Seminary]]. There, she also joined the [[Semi-Colon Club]], a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, [[Caroline Lee Hentz]], [[Salmon P. Chase]] (future governor of the state and Secretary of Treasury under President Lincoln), [[Emily Blackwell]], and others.<ref name="tonk">Tonkovic, Nicole. ''Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller''. University Press of Mississippi, 1997: 12. ISBN 0-87805-993-8</ref> Cincinnati's trade and shipping business on the Ohio River was booming, drawing numerous migrants from different parts of the country, including many free blacks, as well as Irish immigrants who worked on the state's canals and railroads. Areas of the city had been wracked in the [[Cincinnati riots of 1829]], when ethnic Irish attacked blacks, trying to push competitors out of the city. 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 again in 1836 and 1841, driven also by native-born anti-abolitionists.

It was in the literary club that she met [[Calvin Ellis Stowe]], a widower who was a professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 21. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7</ref> He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the [[Underground Railroad]], temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. Most slaves continued north to secure freedom in Canada. The Stowes had seven children together, including twin daughters.

===''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' and Civil War===
[[File:Alanson Fisher - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Stowe by Alanson Fisher, 1853 ([[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]])]]
In 1850, Congress passed the [[Fugitive Slave Law]], prohibiting assistance to fugitives and strengthening sanctions even in free states. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family to [[Brunswick, Maine]], where her husband was now teaching at [[Bowdoin College]]. Their [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)|home]] near the campus is protected as a national historic resource in her honor.

During a communion service at the college chapel, Stowe had a vision of a dying slave, which inspired her to write his story.<ref>Gershon, Noel (1976). ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: Biography''. Henry Holt and Co, New York, NY.</ref> On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to [[Gamaliel Bailey]], editor of the weekly antislavery journal ''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."<ref name=Hedrick208>Hedrick, Joan D.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tl8m84E2iFkC&printsec=frontcover ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''], New York: Oxford University Press, 1995: 208. ISBN 978-0-19-509639-2</ref>

Shortly after, in June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' was published in serial form in the newspaper ''[[National Era]]''. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was A Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852.<ref name=Hedrick208/> For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid $400.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lyons|first=Martyn|title=Books: A Living History|year=2011|publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum|location=Los Angeles, CA|page=143}}</ref> ''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.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 80–81. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7</ref> Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by [[Hammatt Billings]].<ref>Parfait, Claire. ''The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007: 71–72. ISBN 978-0-7546-5514-5</ref> In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies.<ref>Morgan, Jo-Ann. ''Uncle Tom's Cabin As Visual Culture''. University of Missouri Press, 2007: 136–137. ISBN 978-0-8262-1715-8</ref> By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37 1/2 cents each to stimulate sales.<ref>Parfait, Claire. ''The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007: 78. ISBN 978-0-7546-5514-5</ref>

According to Daniel R. Lincoln, 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.<ref>Vollaro, Daniel R. 'Lincoln, Stowe, And The Little Woman/Great War' Story: The Making, And Breaking, Of A Great American Anecdote'. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 30.1 (2015): 1. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.</ref> [[File:Harriet Beecher Stowe by Francis Holl.JPG|thumb|Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Francis Holl, 1853]]
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. Within a year, 300 babies in Boston alone were named [[Uncle Tom's Cabin#Eva|Eva (one of the book's characters)]], and a play based on the book opened in New York in November of that year.<ref>Morgan, Jo-Ann. ''Uncle Tom's Cabin As Visual Culture''. University of Missouri Press, 2007: 137. ISBN 978-0-8262-1715-8</ref> Southerners quickly responded with numerous works of what are now called [[anti-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.

After the start of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Stowe traveled to the capital Washington, D.C., where she met President [[Abraham Lincoln]] on November 25, 1862.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 163. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7</ref> 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."<ref name=Hedrick306>Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life'' (1995) p 306</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite book|author1=David B. Sachsman|author2=S. Kittrell Rushing|author3=Roy Morris|title=Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTSEuddLtlUC&pg=PA8|year=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|page=8}}</ref> Her own accounts are vague, including the letter reporting the meeting to her husband: "I had a real funny interview with the President."<ref name=Hedrick306/>

===Later years===
In the years following the Civil War, Stowe campaigned for the expansion of married women's rights, arguing in 1869 that:<ref>{{cite book|last=Homestead|first=Melissa J.|title=American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 |year=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=NY|pages=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36L3XxeevSEC&pg=PA29&}}</ref>
{{quote|[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 English [[common law]] a married woman is nothing at all. She passes out of legal existence.}}

In 1868, Stowe became one of the first editors of ''[[Hearth and Home]]'' magazine, one of several new publications appealing to women; she departed after a year.<ref name="mott">Mott, Frank Luther. ''A History of American Magazine, 1865-1885'', p. 99 (1938)</ref>

In the 1870s, Stowe's brother [[Henry Ward Beecher]] was accused of adultery, and became the subject of a national scandal. Unable to bear the public attacks on her brother, Stowe fled to Florida but asked family members to send her newspaper reports.<ref>Applegate, Debby. ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher''. New York: Three Leaves Press, 2006: 444. ISBN 978-0-385-51397-5</ref> Through the affair, she remained loyal to her brother and believed he was innocent.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 270. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7</ref>

After her return to Connecticut, Mrs. Stowe was among the founders of the Hartford Art School, which later became part of the [[University of Hartford]].

Following her husband Calvin Stowe's death 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 
<blockquote>"writing ''Uncle 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 authoress 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 which she regarded as freshly created."<ref>[http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/articles/n2ar19cmt.html "Rewriting Uncle Tom"] Retrieved 6 September 2013.</ref></blockquote>

[[Mark Twain]], a neighbor of Stowe's in Hartford, recalled her last years in the following passage of his autobiography:  
<blockquote>"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."<ref>{{cite book |title=Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Harriet Elinor |year=2010 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |pages=438–439 |isbn=978-0-520-26719-0}}</ref></blockquote>  Modern researchers now speculate that at the end of her life Harriet was suffering from [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe - A Life''. Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 384.</ref>

Harriet Beecher Stowe died on July 1, 1896, at age eighty-five in [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut]].
She is buried in the historic cemetery at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{FAG|992|Harriet Elizabeth ''Beecher'' Stowe}}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:HarrietBeecherStoweHouse.jpg|thumb|[[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in Cincinnati, Ohio]]
[[File:HarrietBeecherStoweHoF.jpg|thumb|Bust by [[Brenda Putnam]] at [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]]]]

===Landmarks===
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.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Cincinnati, 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-slavery [[Cincinnati 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/|title=Stowe House|work=ohiohistory.org|accessdate=2009-07-27}}</ref>

In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in [[Mandarin, Florida|Mandarin]], Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], on the [[St. Johns River]]. Stowe wrote ''[[Palmetto Leaves]]'' while living in Mandarin, arguably an eloquent piece of promotional literature directed at Florida's potential Northern investors at the time.<ref>Thulesius, Olav. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe in Florida, 1867 to 1884'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2001</ref>  The book was published in 1873 and describes Northeast Florida and its residents. In 1870, Stowe created 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. The [[Church of Our Saviour (Jacksonville, Florida)|Church of our Saviour]] is an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal 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 the ''Stowe Memorial stained glass window'', created by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Wayne|title=Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage|year=1996|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville, FL|isbn=0-8130-0953-7|page=284}}</ref>

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Maine)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]] is where Stowe lived when she wrote ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.'' Her husband was teaching theology at nearby [[Bowdoin College]], and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication. Future [[American Civil War|Civil 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 her Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the frank discussion of them.” 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 not open to the public.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Connecticut)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut]] is the house where Stowe lived for the last 23 years of her life. It was next door to the house of fellow author Mark Twain. In this {{convert|5000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} 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 half hour.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in [[Cincinnati]], the city was afflicted with a serious [[cholera]] epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to [[Washington, Kentucky]], a major community of the era just south of [[Maysville, Kentucky|Maysville]]. 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 included [[Henry Clay]] and [[Daniel Webster]].<ref>Calvert and Klee, ''Towns of Mason County [KY],'' {{LCCN|8662637}}, 1986, Maysville and Mason County Library, Historical, and Scientific Association.</ref>

The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at [[Dresden, Ontario]], which is 20 miles east of [[Algonac, 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 for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMWAP_THE_DAWN_SETTLEMENT_Dresden |title="THE DAWN SETTLEMENT" - Dresden - Ontario Provincial Plaques on |work=Waymarking.com |date= |accessdate=2012-06-14}}</ref>

===Honors===
*Stowe is honored with a [[feast day]] on the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)|liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA)]] on July 1.

*On June 13, 2007, the United States Postal Service issued a 75¢ [[Distinguished Americans series]] postage stamp in her honor.

*In early 2010, Stowe was proposed by the [[Ohio Historical Society]] as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in [[Statuary Hall]] at the [[United States Capitol]].

===In popular culture===
In the fictional [[North American Confederacy|North American Confederacy Series]] by [[L. Neil Smith]], in which the United States becomes a [[Libertarianism|Libertarian state]] in 1794 after a successful [[Whiskey Rebellion]] and the overthrowing and execution of [[George Washington]] by firing squad for treason, '''Harriet Beecher Stowe''' served as the thirteenth President of the North American Confederacy from 1859, when Arthur Downing died, to 1860, when [[Lysander Spooner]] succeeded her. She was the first woman to hold the office of the presidency and was called her own [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]].

==Partial list of works==
*''The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims'' (1834)
*''Mark Meriden'' (1841)
*''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852)
*''[[A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1853)
*''[[Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp]]'' (1856)
*''[[The Minister's Wooing]]'' (1859)
*''Agnes of Sorrento'' (1862) ([https://archive.org/stream/agnessorrento01stowgoog#page/n5/mode/2up reading online])
*''The Pearl of Orr's Island'' (1862)
*''The Chimney Corner'' (1866) (chapters published in [https://books.google.com/books?id=j50GAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Atlantic Monthly Volume 18])
*''The American Woman's Home'' (1869) (with [[Catherine Beecher]]) (see [http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_26.cfm summary and links to the book here])
*''[[Old Town Folks]]'' (1869)
*''Little Pussy Willow'' (1870)
*''Lady Byron Vindicated'' (1870)
*''[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47874 My Wife and I]'' (1871)
*''Pink and White Tyranny'' (1871)
*''Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other'' (one of several contributors, 1872)
*''Woman in Sacred History'' (1873)
*''[[Palmetto Leaves]]'' (1873)
*''We and Our Neighbors'' (1875)
*''Poganuc People'' (1878)
*''The Poor Life'' (1890)
*''He's Coming Tomorrow'' (unknown) <ref>The Second Coming of Christ, Moody Press, Colportage Library #34</ref>

===As Christopher Crowfield  ===
*''House and Home Papers'' (1865)
*''Little Foxes'' (1866)

==See also==
{{Portal|Saints}}
* [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)]]
* [[Origins of the American Civil War]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
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* {{Gutenberg author |id=Stowe,+Harriet+Beecher | name=Harriet Beecher Stowe}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Harriet Beecher Stowe}}
* {{Librivox author |id=260}}
* [http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ''Uncle Tom’s Cabin'': an Electronic Edition of the ''National Era'' Version] &mdash; Edited by textual scholar Wesley Raabe, this is the first edition of the novel to be based on the original text published in the ''National Era''
* [http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/ Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture] &mdash; A multimedia archive edited by Stephen Railton about the Stowe's novel's place in American history and society
* [http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/ Harriet Beecher Stowe House & Center] &mdash; Stowe's adulthood home in Hartford, Connecticut
* [http://www.stowesociety.org/ Harriet Beecher Stowe Society] &mdash; Scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the life and works of Harriet Beecher Stowe
* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Harriet+Beecher+Stowe&amode=words The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)]
* {{gutenberg|no=6702|name=Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe}}
* [http://Stowe.thefreelibrary.com/ Harriet Beecher Stowe's brief biography and works]
* [http://anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hus-utc.htm "Uncle Tom's Cabin: the book that ignited a nation"]
* [http://path2prayer.com/article.php?id=579 "How To Live on Christ" a pamphlet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, taken from her Introduction to Chistopher Dean's "Religion As It Should Be or The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck" published in 1847] Hudson Taylor sent a pamphlet using the words of this preface out to all the missionaries of the China Inland Mission in 1869.
* [http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/uncltom1.asp Barron's BookNotes for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' - The Author and Her Times]
* [http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/stowe.asp Harriet Beecher Stowe] at [[C-SPAN]]'s ''[[American Writers: A Journey Through History]]''
* [http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=10 Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Horace Mann, 2 March 1852] from the Horace Mann Papers III at the Massachusetts Historical Society, retrieved June 4, 2012
* [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00049 Beecher-Stowe family Papers.] [http://radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
| DATE OF DEATH     = July 1, 1896
| PLACE OF DEATH    = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
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