Harriet Beecher Stowe
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Abolition movement, Abolitionists
- Curriculum: Women’s History, African American History, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Stowe’s popular novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin attacked slavery as a threat to the Christian family and helped to end this institution in the United States. In this and later novels, Stowe wrote as an early advocate for women—one who wished to help them by creating a “women’s sphere” in the home.
Early Life
Lyman Beecher, Harriet Beecher’s father, was a stern New England Calvinist preacher whose image of a God who predestined humans to heaven or hell left a mark on his children. The fact that Harriet’s mother died when she was...
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