Death of harriet beecher stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Early Life

Stowe was born into a prominent family on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a Presbyterian preacher and her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, died when Stowe was just five years old.

Stowe had twelve siblings (some were half-siblings born after her father remarried), many of whom were social reformers and involved in the abolitionist movement. But it was her sister Catharine who likely influenced her the most.

Death of harriet beecher stowe

Catharine Beecher strongly believed girls should be afforded the same educational opportunities as men, although she never supported women’s suffrage. In 1823, she founded the Hartford Female Seminary, one of few schools of the era that educated women.

Stowe attended the school as a student and later taught there.

Early Writing Career

Writing came naturally to Stowe, as it did to her father and many of her siblings. But it wasn’t until she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, with Catharine and her father i