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 * //HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER STOWE

Thesis:

Notes: KP//** **//1. Harriet Beecher Stowe has become one of the most renowned writers of the 19th century//**
 * //2.//** **//She was a member of the prominent New England Beecher family, the wife of Professor Calvin Stowe, and a mother to seven children.//**
 * //3.//** **//It was in Cincinnati that Harriet published her first short story in the//** //**Western Monthly**// **//magazine.//**


 * //N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2010. .//**


 * //Notes: KP

1. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine. 2. Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children 3.Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. 4.During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels. 5.She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Conneticutt. 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first,//** [|**//Uncle Tom's Cabin//**] **//(1852). 7. Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial. 8. Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery. 9. Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state. 10.She published a second anti-slavery novel, Dred in1856. 11. In 1862, when she visited President Lincoln, legend claims that he greeted her as "the little lady who made this big war":

N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2010. .//**


 * //Notes at School: KP//**


 * 1) //**Uncle Tom’s Cabin**// **//is the first American novel to have an African-American protagonist.//**
 * 2) **//Reflecting years later on her purposes in writing the novel, Stowe said in her journal, “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and brokenhearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity, because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath.”//**
 * 3) **//Although Stowe’s intentions in creating her novel may have been altruistically motivated, many African Americans feel that being called an “Uncle Tom” is a slur of the worst order. Many find the title character to be the epitome of submissiveness.//**
 * 4) **//In 1870, Stowe created an integrated school for both children and adults in Mandarin, Florida, a move toward integration that would not truly be realized in American for another fifty years or more.//**


 * //N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010. .//**


 * //Notes: KP//**


 * 1) **//Full Name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe//**
 * 2) **//Birth: June 14, 1811//**
 * 3) **//Born in Litchfield, Connecticut.//**
 * 4) **//Death: July 1, 1896-//**
 * 5) **//She died at the age of 85//**
 * 6) **//She died in Hartford, Connecticut.//**
 * 7) **//Dad: Congregational minister Lyman Beecher//**
 * 8) **//Mom: Roxana Foote Beecher.//**
 * 9) **//Her education was two-thirds religious.//**
 * 10) **//At age eleven she was already writing compositions.//**
 * 11) **//She was a very smart child.//**
 * 12) **//She is most famous for writing the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.//**
 * 13) **//In Uncle Tom's Cabin she expresses her moral outrage at the institution of slavery and its destructive effects on both whites and blacks.//**
 * 14) **//She published almost one book every year between the years of 1862 and 1864.//**
 * 15) **//She was inducted into the women's hall of fame//**
 * 16) **//Year Inducted Into The Women's Hall of Fame: 1986//**
 * 17) **//She married Calvin Stowe in 1836.//**
 * 18) **//They had seven children.//**
 * 19) **//Harriet growing up as a child was very creative.//**
 * 20) **//She was already writing stories at the age of eleven.//**
 * 21) **//She was also a great person who made many advances in her society.//**


 * //N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010. .//**

 
 * //Notes: KP//**
 * 1) //**Uncle Tom’s Cabin**// **//is the first American novel to have an African-American protagonist.//**
 * 2) **//Reflecting years later on her purposes in writing the novel, Stowe said in her journal, “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and brokenhearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity, because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath.”//**
 * 3) **//Although Stowe’s intentions in creating her novel may have been altruistically motivated, many African Americans feel that being called an “Uncle Tom” is a slur of the worst order. Many find the title character to be the epitome of submissiveness.//**
 * 4) **//In 1870, Stowe created an integrated school for both children and adults in Mandarin, Florida, a move toward integration that would not truly be realized in American for another fifty years or more.//**
 * 5) **//Her abolitionist novel is often credited with promoting so much empathy for slaves from readers in the North and so much anger from readers in the South that it was an instigator of the Civil War.//**
 * 6) **//Her brother was the very famous minister Henry Ward Beecher.//**
 * 7) **//In 1850 the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law (which allowed escaped slaves to be returned to their “masters”) so incensed Stowe that she felt it was her duty to write the novel.//**

**//N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Jun 2010. .//**


 * //Notes: KP//**

> > > >
 * 1) Beecher Stowe caused a controversy in 1869 with a magazine article, "The True Story of Lady Byron's Wife,"
 * 2) This was a piece she wrote after making the acquaintance of the great poet's widow.
 * 3)  In which she accused Lord Byron of committing incest with his sister, Augusta
 * 1)  In 1896 her works were published in 16 volumes as //The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe//.
 * 1)  Harriet moved to Cincinnati in 1833
 * 1)  While living in Cincinnati, she became active in the anti-slavery movement
 * 1)  This is also where she became a professional writer.

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