Catherine was a big influence in Harriet's life. Catherine was a very smart person. In fact, she had an intellect beyond most people. She married a professor from Yale University who died in a shipwreck. For years Catherine was in grief and was on the verge of mentally collapsing. She continued on in this melancholy state of mind, until she finally was saved by her own determination to move on and make a life for herself and Harriet. So, Catherine founded an all girls seminary school in Hartford, Connecticut and Harriet started there for her education. Harriet thought an orphanage would have been just about as good as the seminary, because it was so hard and strict, religiously and educationally. At this time in her life, Harriet was a heavy believer in religion, even though it was hard.

Harriet started writing at this time. Her earliest preserved school composition was called "Can the Immortality of the Soul be Proved

Uncle Tom's Cabin was mainly about slaves and how they are treated. In the story Tom gets whipped to death and another slave was sold away from her mom. Stowe had no intention of the book being a fictional book, however, people thought differently. After Stowe became famous and people all around were reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, some people didn't like what she was writing, because they thought that it was all false, lies, and people didn't really act like how she said they did. People would attack her with insults and call her a liar. One incident where people said the book was false was when Harriet read the "New York Courier" and the "Inquirer". Both papers said that a man being lashed to death and a girl being sold from her mother could never have happened openly in the real world. To prove that there was truth in her stories, Stowe decided to write a reference book and show people where she got her information from and prove that it was true. That book was called The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the sources in this book came from one of Harriet's brothers, Edward. Edward had experiences working in Alton, Illinois with a man named Elija P. Lovejoy, studying the laws about governing slavery. This book helped a lot for Stowe's reputation and people didn't attack her verbally with insults as much anymore.

In 1878 Stowe had been forced to take the long rest that she needed after writing so many books. That "rest" turned out to be her retirement from book writing. A rumor started around that she was planning to write another book called Orange Blossoms,but it was just that--a rumor.

During the Civil War, Stowe contributed a small part of her day as a part time assistant nurse. However, her second son Frederick William contributed significantly. Frederick was one of the earliest volunteers. His services, including serious injury, earned him a promotion in rank at Gettysburg and offered him the glory of storybook heroism.

Harriet continued writing for the rest of her life time. Although Uncle Tom's Cabin and some of her other stories made a big hit, most of her stories were a flop, according to critics of the day. One of her best, but less famous, books was titled Lady Byron Vindicated. It got so many bad reviews that it almost ruined her reputation. People were actually accusing her of publishing nothing but rubbish. Even though it got so many bad

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