Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut. There were eight children in the Beecher family and Harriet was the youngest of them all. Her mother died in 1816 when Harriet was four, and so the oldest daughter Catherine, raised Harriet for most her life. When Harriet was 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father was a president at a ministry. That is where Harriet met her husband, Calvin Stowe. They had 7 children together. Harriet was one of very few women writers of the time, who could get published in a magazine. Some of her early story’s were put in her first book “The Mayflower”. “The Mayflower” was about the descendants of Puritans, which had many characters that related to real people she knew in her life. After her children were born, she was thinking of writing bigger and better books. Her husband supported her because they had little money. She, then, moved her family to Maine, after 18 years in Ohio. She thought a lot about the stories she heard about slavery and about how her own life was in some ways similar to the slave situation and she
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Approximate Word count = 737
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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