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A Short Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author Name:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Born As:

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher

Other Names:

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Born:

14 Jun 1811

Died:

1 Jul 1896




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Humanitarian and novelist                          
Selected Works:

The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims - 1834
Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1852
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1853
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - 1856
The Minister's Wooing - 1859
The Pearl of Orr's Island - 1862
As "Christopher Crowfield"
House and Home Papers - 1865
Little Foxes - 1866
The Chimney Corner - 1868
Men of Our Times - 1868
Old Town Folks - 1869
Little Pussy Willow - 1870
Lady Byron Vindicated - 1870
My Wife and I - 1871
Pink and White Tyranny - 1871
Woman in Sacred History - 1873
Palmetto-Leaves - 1873
We and Our Neighbors - 1875
Poganuc People - 1878
The Poor Life - 1890                                              
Mother 
Father  Lyman Beecher
Husband Calvin Stowe, seven children, twin girls Hattie and Eliza, Frederick William, Samuel Charles who died from  cholera.                                               
Within a week of the  release of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the U.S., her book sold a phenomenal 10,000 copies, and 300,000 the first year. Sales were even higher in Britain. By 1854, her book had been translated into 60 different languages.