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{{Short description|American abolitionist and author (1811-1896)}}
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| name             = Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| caption          = Stowe {{circa|1870}}
| pseudonym        = Christopher Crowfield
| notable_works    = ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''
| birth_name       = Harriet Elisabeth Beecher
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1811|6|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Litchfield, Connecticut]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1896|7|1|1811|6|14|mf=y}}
| death_place      = [[Hartford, Connecticut]], U.S.
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Calvin Ellis Stowe]]|1836|1886|end=d.}}
| children         = 7
| relatives        = [[Beecher family]]
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'''Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|oʊ}}; June 14, 1811&nbsp;– July 1, 1896) was an American author and [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]. She came from the religious [[Beecher family]] and wrote the popular novel ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by [[Slavery in the United States|enslaved]] [[African Americans]]. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Great Britain]], energizing anti-slavery forces in the [[Northern United States|American North]], while provoking widespread anger in the [[Antebellum South|South]]. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings as well as for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.

==Life and work==
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]], on June 14, 1811.<ref name="ReferenceA">McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 112. {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4390-7}}.</ref> She was the sixth of 11 children{{Sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=6}} born to outspoken [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] preacher [[Lyman Beecher]]. Her mother was his first wife, Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Roxana's maternal grandfather was General Andrew Ward of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} Harriet's siblings included a sister, [[Catharine Beecher]], who became an educator and author, as well as brothers who became ministers, including [[Henry Ward Beecher]], who became a famous preacher and abolitionist, [[Charles Beecher]], and [[Edward Beecher]].<ref>Applegate, Debby (2006). ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher''. Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. {{ISBN|978-0-307-42400-6}}.</ref>

Harriet enrolled in the [[Hartford Female Seminary]] run by her older sister Catharine, where she received a traditional academic education&nbsp;– rather uncommon for women at the time&nbsp;– with a focus in the [[classics]], languages, and mathematics. Among her classmates was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym [[Fanny Fern]].<ref>Warren, Joyce W. ''Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman''. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992: 21. {{ISBN|0-8135-1763-X}}.</ref>

In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], to join her father, who had become the president of [[Lane Seminary|Lane Theological Seminary]]. There, she also joined the [[Semi-Colon Club]], a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, [[Caroline Lee Hentz]], [[Salmon P. Chase]] (future governor of Ohio and [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] under President [[Abraham Lincoln]]), [[Emily Blackwell]], and others.<ref name="tonk">Tonkovic, Nicole. ''Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller''. University Press of Mississippi, 1997: 12. {{ISBN|0-87805-993-8}}.</ref> Cincinnati's trade and shipping business on the [[Ohio River]] was booming, drawing numerous migrants from different parts of the country, including many [[Fugitive slaves in the United States|escaped slaves]], bounty hunters seeking them, and Irish immigrants who worked on the state's canals and railroads. In 1829, [[Cincinnati riots of 1829|the Irish attacked Blacks]], wrecking areas of the city, trying to push out these competitors for jobs. Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks, and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. Riots took place again [[Cincinnati riots of 1836|in 1836]] and [[Cincinnati riots of 1841|1841]], driven also by [[Nativism (politics)#United States|native-born]] anti-abolitionists.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}

Harriet was also influenced by the [[Lane Seminary#The slavery debates|Lane Debates on Slavery]]. The biggest event ever to take place at Lane, it was the series of debates held on 18 days in February 1834, between [[American Colonization Society|colonization]] and abolition defenders, decisively won by [[Theodore Dwight Weld|Theodore Weld]] and other abolitionists. Elisabeth attended most of the debates.<ref name=Williams>{{cite book
|title=Prudence Crandall's legacy: the fight for equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education
|first=Donald E.
|last=Williams Jr.
|location=[[Middletown, Connecticut]]
|publisher=[[Wesleyan University Press]]
|year=2014
|isbn=978-0-8195-7470-1}}</ref>{{rp|171}} Her father and the trustees, afraid of more violence from anti-abolitionist whites, prohibited any further discussions of the topic. The result was a [[Lane Seminary#The "Lane Rebels" resign|mass exodus of the Lane students]], together with a supportive trustee and a professor, who moved as a group to the new [[Oberlin College|Oberlin Collegiate Institute]] after its trustees agreed, by a close and acrimonious vote, to accept students regardless of "race", and to allow discussions of any topic.

It was in the literary club at Lane that she met Rev. [[Calvin Ellis Stowe]], a widower who was a professor of Biblical Literature at the seminary.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Lane Seminary
|newspaper=Vermont Chronicle |location=[[Bellows Falls, Vermont]]
|date=September 7, 1832
|page=3
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38194559/appointment_of_rev_calvin_stowe_to_lane/
|via=[[newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The two married at the Seminary on January 6, 1836.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 21. {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4390-7}}</ref> The Stowes had seven children, including twin daughters.<ref>{{cite web |title=Family |url=https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/harriet-beecher-stowe/family/ |access-date=June 4, 2024 |publisher=The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center}}</ref>

===''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' and Civil War===
[[File:Alanson Fisher - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Stowe by Alanson Fisher, 1853 ([[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]])]]

The [[31st United States Congress|Congress]] passed the [[Fugitive Slave Act of 1850]], prohibiting assistance to fugitives and strengthening sanctions even in free states. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family to [[Brunswick, Maine]], where her husband was now teaching at [[Bowdoin College]]. Their [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)|home]] near the campus is now protected as a National Historic Landmark.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/stowe-house/|title=Harriet Beecher Stowe House|website=www.bowdoin.edu|language=en|access-date=September 24, 2018}}</ref> The Stowes were ardent critics of slavery and supported the [[Underground Railroad]], temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. One fugitive from slavery, [[John Andrew Jackson]], wrote of hiding with Stowe in her house in Brunswick as he fled to Canada in his narrative titled ''The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina'' (London: Passmore & Albaster, 1862).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ashton |first1=Susanna |title=The Genuine Article: Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Andrew Jackson |url=http://commonplace.online/article/genuine-article/ |website=Commonplace: A Journal of Early American Life |access-date=November 14, 2020}}</ref>

Stowe claimed to have had a vision of a dying slave during a communion service at Brunswick's First Parish Church, which inspired her to write his story.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of the First Parish Church in Brunswick, Maine |last=Ashby |first=Thompson Eldridge and Louise R. Helmreich|publisher=J.H. French |year=1969|location=Brunswick, Maine |pages=229}}</ref> What also likely allowed her to empathize with slaves was the loss of her eighteen-month-old son, Samuel Charles Stowe. She noted, "Having experienced losing someone so close to me, I can sympathize with all the poor, powerless slaves at the unjust auctions. You will always be in my heart Samuel Charles Stowe."<ref>Gershon, Noel (1976). ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: Biography''. New York: Henry Holt and Co.{{Page needed|date=June 2019}}</ref> On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to [[Gamaliel Bailey]], editor of the weekly anti-slavery journal ''[[The National Era]]'', that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: "I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak&nbsp;... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent."{{Sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=208}}

[[File:Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852. (21452599131) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Daguerreotype portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852]]

Shortly after in June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' was published in serial form in the newspaper ''The National Era''. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was a Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852.{{Sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=208}} For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid $400.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lyons|first=Martyn|title=Books: A Living History|year=2011|publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum|location=Los Angeles |page=143}}</ref> ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 80–81. {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4390-7}}.</ref> Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by [[Hammatt Billings]].<ref>Parfait, Claire. ''The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002''. Ashgate Publishing, 2007: 71–72. {{ISBN|978-0-7546-5514-5}}.</ref> In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies.<ref>Morgan, Jo-Ann. ''Uncle Tom's Cabin As Visual Culture''. University of Missouri Press, 2007: 136–137. {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1715-8}}</ref> By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at {{Frac|37|1|2}} cents each to stimulate sales.<ref>Parfait, Claire. ''The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852–2002''. Ashgate Publishing, 2007: 78. {{ISBN|978-0-7546-5514-5}}.</ref> Sales abroad, as in Britain where the book was a great success, earned Stowe nothing as there was no international copyright agreement in place during that era.<ref>Lyons, Martyn. ''Books: A Living History''. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Chapter 4, p. 143.</ref> In 1853, Stowe undertook a lecture tour of Britain and, to make up the royalties that she could not receive there, the Glasgow New Association for the Abolition of Slavery set up Uncle Tom's Offering.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mullen, Stephen.|title=It wisnae us: the truth about Glasgow and slavery|date=2009|publisher=Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland|others=Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance.|isbn=978-1-873190-62-3|location=Edinburgh|pages=75|oclc=551393830}}</ref>

According to Daniel R. Vollaro, the goal of the book was to educate Northerners on the realistic horrors of the things that were happening in the South. The other purpose was to try to make people in the South feel more empathetic towards the people they were forcing into slavery.<ref name="Vollaro, Daniel R 2015">Vollaro, Daniel R. "Lincoln, Stowe, and the 'Little Woman/Great War' Story: The Making, And Breaking, Of A Great American Anecdote". ''Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association'' 30.1 (2015).</ref> The book's emotional portrayal of the effects of slavery on individuals captured the nation's attention. Stowe showed that slavery touched all of society, beyond the people directly involved as masters, traders and slaves. Her novel added to the debate about abolition and slavery, and aroused opposition in the South. In the South, Stowe was depicted as out of touch, arrogant, and guilty of slander, as she had never visited the South and had never seen a plantation. Within a year, 300 babies in Boston alone were named [[Uncle Tom's Cabin#Eva|Eva (one of the book's characters)]], and a play based on the book opened in New York in November.<ref>Morgan, Jo-Ann. ''Uncle Tom's Cabin As Visual Culture''. University of Missouri Press, 2007: 137. {{ISBN|978-0-8262-1715-8}}</ref> Southerners quickly responded with numerous works of what are now called [[Anti-Tom literature|anti-Tom novels]], seeking to portray Southern society and slavery in more positive terms. Many of these were bestsellers, although none matched the popularity of Stowe's work, which set publishing records.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

After the start of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Stowe traveled to the capital, Washington, D.C., where she met President Abraham Lincoln on November 25, 1862.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 163. {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4390-7}}</ref> Stowe's daughter, Hattie, reported, "It was a very droll time that we had at the White house I assure you&nbsp;... I will only say now that it was all very funny&nbsp;– and we were ready to explode with laughter all the while."{{sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=306}} What Lincoln said is a minor mystery. Her son later reported that Lincoln greeted her by saying, "so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war",<ref>{{cite book|author1=David B. Sachsman|author2=S. Kittrell Rushing|author3=Roy Morris|title=Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTSEuddLtlUC&pg=PA8|year=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|page=8|isbn=978-1-55753-439-2}}</ref> but this story has been found to be apocryphal.<ref name="Vollaro, Daniel R 2015"/> Her own accounts are vague, including the letter reporting the meeting to her husband: "I had a real funny interview with the President."{{sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=306}}

===Later years===
Stowe purchased property in [[Mandarin (Jacksonville)|Mandarin]] near [[Jacksonville, Florida]]. In response to a newspaper article in 1873, she wrote, "I came to Florida the year after the war and held property in [[Duval County, Florida|Duval County]] ever since. In all this time I have not received even an incivility from any native Floridian."<ref>Mandarin Musical Society, "Harriet Beecher Stowe," http://www.mandarinmuseum.net/harriet-beecher-stowe</ref>

Stowe is controversial for her support of [[Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll]], whose grandfather had been a primary enforcer of the [[Highland Clearances]], the transformation of the remote Highlands of Scotland from a militia-based society to an agricultural one that supported far fewer people. The newly homeless moved to Canada, where very bitter accounts appeared. It was Stowe's assignment to refute them using evidence the Duchess provided, in Letter XVII Volume 1 of her travel memoir ''Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Harriet Beecher Stowe|title=Sunny memories of foreign lands|publisher=Phillips, Sampson, and Company|url=https://archive.org/details/sunnymemoriesoff01stow_0|year=1854|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sunnymemoriesoff01stow_0/page/301 301]–313}}</ref> Stowe was criticized for her seeming defense of the clearances.<ref>For a hostile account see Judie Newman, "Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery." in {{cite book|editor-first1=Janet |editor-last1=Beer |editor-first2=Bridget |editor-last2=Bennett |title=Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms 1854–1936|url=http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&collection=oapen&docid=341374#page=28|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|pages=28–41}}</ref>

In 1868, Stowe became one of the first editors of ''[[Hearth and Home]]'' magazine, one of several new publications appealing to women; she departed after a year.<ref name="mott">Mott, Frank Luther. ''A History of American Magazine, 1865–1885'', p. 99 (1938)</ref> Stowe campaigned for the expansion of married women's rights, arguing in 1869 that:<ref>{{cite book|last=Homestead|first=Melissa J.|title=American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 |year=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=NY|pages=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36L3XxeevSEC&pg=PA29|isbn=978-1-139-44689-1}}</ref>

{{blockquote|[T]he position of a married woman&nbsp;... is, in many respects, precisely similar to that of the negro slave. She can make no contract and hold no property; whatever she inherits or earns becomes at that moment the property of her husband&nbsp;... Though he acquired a fortune through her, or though she earned a fortune through her talents, he is the sole master of it, and she cannot draw a penny&nbsp;... [I]n the English [[common law]] a married woman is nothing at all. She passes out of legal existence.}}

In the 1870s, Stowe's brother [[Henry Ward Beecher]] was accused of adultery, and became the subject of a national scandal. Unable to bear the public attacks on her brother, Stowe again fled to Florida but asked family members to send her newspaper reports.<ref>Applegate, Debby. ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher''. New York: Three Leaves Press, 2006: 444. {{ISBN|978-0-385-51397-5}}</ref> Through the affair, she remained loyal to her brother and believed he was innocent.<ref>McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 270. {{ISBN|978-0-8021-4390-7}}</ref>

After her return to Connecticut, Mrs. Stowe was among the founders of the Hartford Art School, which later became part of the [[University of Hartford]].

Following the death of her husband, Calvin Stowe, in 1886, Harriet started rapidly to decline in health. By 1888, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that as a result of dementia the 77-year-old Stowe started writing ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' over again. She imagined that she was engaged in the original composition, and for several hours every day she industriously used pen and paper, inscribing passages of the book almost exactly word for word. This was done unconsciously from memory, the author imagining that she composed the matter as she went along. To her diseased mind the story was brand new, and she frequently exhausted herself with labor that she regarded as freshly created.<ref>[http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=utc/responses/articles/n2ar19cm.xml&chunk.id=d12131e91&toc.depth=1&brand=default "Rewriting Uncle Tom"] Retrieved September 6, 2013.</ref>

[[Mark Twain]], a neighbor of Stowe's in Hartford, recalled her last years in the following passage of his autobiography:
<blockquote>Her mind had decayed, and she was a pathetic figure. She wandered about all the day long in the care of a muscular Irish woman. Among the colonists of our neighborhood the doors always stood open in pleasant weather. Mrs. Stowe entered them at her own free will, and as she was always softly slippered and generally full of animal spirits, she was able to deal in surprises, and she liked to do it. She would slip up behind a person who was deep in dreams and musings and fetch a war whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes.  And she had other moods. Sometimes we would hear gentle music in the drawing-room and would find her there at the piano singing ancient and melancholy songs with infinitely touching effect.<ref>{{cite book |title=Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Harriet Elinor |year=2010 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/438 438–39] |isbn=978-0-520-26719-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm00twai_0/page/438 }}</ref></blockquote>

Modern researchers now speculate that at the end of her life she was suffering from [[Alzheimer's disease]].{{sfn|Hedrick|1994|p=384}}{{Failed verification|date=January 2025|reason=Page 384 does not contain this information.}}

[[File:Stowe, Harriet Beecher grave.jpg|thumb|Harriet Beecher Stowe grave]]
Harriet Beecher Stowe died on July 1, 1896, in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], 17 days after her 85th birthday.
She is buried in the historic cemetery at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]],<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 45342). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> along with her husband and their son Henry Ellis.

==Legacy==
[[File:Dr. Stowe & Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|thumb|Stereoscope of Dr. Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowe at the house in Mandarin, Florida]]

===Landmarks===
Multiple landmarks are dedicated to the memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and are located in several states including Ohio, Florida, Maine and Connecticut. The locations of these landmarks represent various periods of her life such as her father's house where she grew up and where she wrote her most famous work.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], is the former home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Seminary. Her father was a preacher who was greatly affected by the pro-slavery [[Cincinnati Riots of 1836]]. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here until her marriage. It is open to the public and operated as a historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Lane Seminary and the Underground Railroad. The site also presents African-American history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/|title=Stowe House|work=ohiohistory.org|access-date=July 27, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717120109/http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/|archive-date=July 17, 2007}}</ref>

In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in [[Mandarin, Florida|Mandarin]], Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], on the [[St. Johns River]]. Stowe wrote ''[[Palmetto Leaves]]'' while living in Mandarin, arguably an eloquent piece of promotional literature directed at Florida's potential Northern investors at the time.<ref>Thulesius, Olav. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe in Florida, 1867 to 1884'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2001</ref> The book was published in 1873 and describes Northeast Florida and its residents. In 1874, Stowe was honored by the governor of Florida as one of several northerners who had helped Florida's growth after the war. In addition to her writings inspiring tourists and settlers to the area, she helped establish a church and a school, and she helped promote oranges as a major state crop through her own groves.<ref>Koester, Nancy. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life''. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014: 305. {{ISBN|978-0-8028-3304-4}}</ref> The school she helped establish in 1870 was an integrated school in Mandarin for children and adults. This predated the national movement toward integration by more than a half century. The marker commemorating the Stowe family is located across the street from the former site of their cottage. It is on the property of the Community Club, at the site of a church where Stowe's husband once served as a minister. The [[Church of Our Saviour (Jacksonville, Florida)|Church of our Saviour]] is an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] founded in 1880 by a group of people who had gathered for Bible readings with Professor Calvin E. Stowe and his famous wife. The house was constructed in 1883 which contained the ''Stowe Memorial stained glass window'', created by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Wayne|title=Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage|year=1996|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville, FL|isbn=978-0-8130-0953-7|page=284}}</ref>

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Maine)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]], is where Stowe lived when she wrote ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.'' Her husband was teaching theology at nearby [[Bowdoin College]], and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication. Future [[American Civil War|Civil War]] general, and later Governor, [[Joshua Chamberlain]] was then a student at the college and later described the setting. "On these occasions," Chamberlain noted, "a chosen circle of friends, mostly young, were favored with the freedom of her house, the rallying point being, however, the reading before publication, of the successive chapters of her ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', and the frank discussion of them."{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} In 2001, Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house. It is now open to the public.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Connecticut)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut]], is the house where Stowe lived for the last 23 years of her life. It was next door to the house of fellow author [[Mark Twain]]. In this {{convert|5000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} cottage-style house, there are many of Beecher Stowe's original items and items from the time period. In the research library, which is open to the public, there are numerous letters and documents from the Beecher family. The house is open to the public and offers house tours on the hour.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/visit/the-stowe-center/ |title = Hours & Admission|date = March 28, 2019}}</ref>

In 1833, during Stowe's time in [[Cincinnati]], the city was afflicted with a serious [[cholera]] epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to [[Washington, Kentucky]], a major community of the era just south of [[Maysville, Kentucky|Maysville]]. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville. Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included [[Henry Clay]] and [[Daniel Webster]].<ref>Calvert and Klee, ''Towns of Mason County [KY]'', {{LCCN|8662637}}{{dead link|date=June 2019}}, 1986, Maysville and Mason County Library, Historical, and Scientific Association.</ref>

The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at [[Dresden, Ontario]], which is 20 miles east of [[Algonac, Michigan]]. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMWAP_THE_DAWN_SETTLEMENT_Dresden |title='The Dawn Settlement' – Dresden  |work=Ontario Provincial Plaques on Waymarking.com |access-date=June 14, 2012}}</ref>

===Honors===

[[File:HarrietBeecherStoweHoF.jpg|thumb|Bust by [[Brenda Putnam]] at [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]]]]
* In 1986, Stowe was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>[https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/harriet-beecher-stowe/ National Women's Hall of Fame, Harriet Beecher Stowe]</ref>
* On June 13, 2007, the United States Postal Service issued a 75¢ [[Distinguished Americans series]] postage stamp in her honor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2007/html/pb22206/info3.10.3.html |title=Stamp Announcement 07-19: Harriet Beecher Stowe |website=United States Postal Service |access-date=May 27, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[Harris–Stowe State University]] in St. Louis, Missouri, is named for Stowe and [[William Torrey Harris]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hssu.edu/sp_content.cfm?wID=50&pID=478 |title=Campus History |publisher=Harris-Stowe State University |access-date=December 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608004048/http://www.hssu.edu/sp_content.cfm?wID=50&pID=478 |archive-date=8 June 2010}}</ref>
* In 2010, Stowe was proposed by the [[Ohio Historical Society]] as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in [[Statuary Hall]] at the [[United States Capitol]] ([[Thomas Edison]] was chosen instead).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cleveland.com/open/2010/07/ohioans_pick_thomas_edison_to.html |title=Ohioans pick Thomas Edison to represent the state at U.S. Capitol |last=Guillen |first=Joe |date=July 7, 2010 |website=cleveland.com  |access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>

==Selected works==
===Books===
====Novels====
* {{cite journal|title=Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly|journal=The National Era|date=June 5, 1851}} (First two chapters of serialized version which ran for 40 numbers.) (Digitized version of entire series by [http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/eratoc.html University of Virginia].)
* {{cite book|title=Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life among the Lowly|location=Boston & Cleveland|publisher=J.P. Jewett; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington|year=1852}} (Published in 2 volumes; stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins.) (One volume 1853 edition is hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8rb7nm58;view=1up;seq=19 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Great American Novel, to be completed in six weekly numbers, price one penny each Saturday|location=London|publisher=Vickers|date=August 7, 1852}} (Title from first number.)
* {{cite book|title=Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, The History of a Christian Slave|location=London |publisher=Partridge and Oakey|year=1852}} (First English illustrated edition.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822038205126;view=1up;seq=23 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp|location=Boston|publisher=Phillips, Sampson|year=1856|title-link=Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp}}
* {{cite book|title=Our Charley and What to do with Him|url=https://archive.org/details/ourcharley00stowrich|location=Boston|publisher=Phillips, Sampson|year=1858}}
* {{cite book|title=The Minister's Wooing|location=New York|publisher=Derby and Jackson|year=1859|title-link=The Minister's Wooing}}
* {{cite book|title=The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine|url=https://archive.org/details/pearloforrsislan00stow_0|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1862}} (Ebook available at [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31522 Project Gutenberg].)
* {{cite book|title=Agnes of Sorrento|url=https://archive.org/details/agnessorrento01stowgoog|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1862}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/stream/agnessorrento01stowgoog#page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org])
* {{cite book |title=[[Oldtown Folks]] |location=Montreal; London |publisher=Dawson; Sampson Low, Son & Marston |year=1869}} (Digitized version at [http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/folks/folks.html UPenn Digital Library])
* {{cite book|title=Little Pussy Willow|location=Boston|publisher=Fields, Osgood|year=1870}} (1871 printing available at [https://archive.org/details/littlepussywill00stowgoog Internet Archive].)
* {{cite book|title=Pink and White Tyranny; A Society Novel|url=https://archive.org/details/pinkwhitetyranny00stowrich|location=Boston|publisher=Roberts Brothers|year=1871}} (Ebook available at [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12354 Project Gutenberg].)
* {{cite book|title=My Wife and I: or, Harry Henderson's History|url=https://archive.org/details/mywifeiorharryhe00stowuoft|location=Boston; New York|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; J.B. Ford and Company|year=1871}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044012144044;view=1up;seq=11 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other|url=https://archive.org/details/sixonebyhalfado00perkgoog|location=Boston|publisher=Roberts Brothers|year=1872}} (co-authored with [[Adeline Dutton Train Whitney|Adeline D.T. Whitney]], [[Lucretia Peabody Hale|Lucretia P. Hale]], [[Frederick Wadsworth Loring|Frederic W. Loring]], [[Frederic Beecher Perkins|Frederic B. Perkins]] and [[Edward Everett Hale|Edward E. Hale]].) (Digital copy at [https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lbRaAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-lbRaAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1 Google Books].)
* {{cite book|title=We and our Neighbors; or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street: A Novel|url=https://archive.org/details/weandneighbors00stowrich|location=New York|publisher=J.B. Ford & Company|date=January 10, 1875}} [1875]. (Sequel to ''My wife and I''.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044021028220;view=1up;seq=9 HathiTrust].)

====Drama====
* {{cite book|title=The Christian Slave. A Drama founded on a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin|location=Boston|publisher=Phillips, Sampson & Company|year=1855}} (Closet drama or reading version based on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.'') (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.39000004123068;view=1up;seq=7 HathiTrust].)

====Poetry====
* {{cite book|title=Religious Poems|url=https://archive.org/details/religiouspoems01unkngoog|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1867}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/details/religiouspoems00stowgoog Internet Archive].)

====Non-fiction====
* {{cite book|title=A New England Sketchbook|location=Lowell [Mass.]|publisher=A. Gilman|year=1834}} (As Harriet E. Beecher.)
* {{cite book|title=Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline|location=Boston|publisher=The American Tract Society}} [ca. 1845].
* {{cite book|title=The Christian Keepsake, and Missionary Annual, for MDCCCXLIX|chapter=A New Year's Dream|location=n.l.|publisher=Brower, Hayes & Co.}} [1849].
* {{cite book|title=History of the Edmonson Family|location=Andover, Mass.|publisher=The Author}} 1852?. (Self-published book to raise funds to educate Emily and Mary Edmonson, former slaves redeemed by a public subscription in 1848, supported by Stowe.)
* {{cite book|title=A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work|location=Boston, Cleveland, London|publisher=John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; Low and Company|year=1853}}(Digital Copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006566890;view=1up;seq=7 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands|url=https://archive.org/details/sunnymemoriesfo00billgoog|location=Boston; New York|publisher=Phillips, Sampson, and Company; J.C. Derby|year=1854}} (Digital copy hosted by HathiTrust: [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwpa9n;view=1up;seq=5 Volume I] and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014289318;view=1up;seq=7 Volume II].)
* {{cite book|title=First Geography for Children|location=Boston|publisher=Philips, Sampson and Co.|year=1855}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000009358864;view=1up;seq=21 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Stories about our Dogs|location=Edinburgh|publisher=William P. Nimmo}} [1865]. (Nimmo's Sixpenny Juvenile Series.) (Digital copy hosted by [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00049835/00001/1j University of Florida's George A. Smathers Library].)
* {{cite book|title=House and Home Papers|url=https://archive.org/details/houseandhomepap00unkngoog|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1865}} (Published under the name of Christopher Crowfield.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/details/househomepapers00stow/page/n3 Archive.org].)
* {{cite book|title=Little Foxes|url=https://archive.org/details/littlefoxes00stowuoft|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1866}} (Published under the name of Christopher Crowfield.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/details/littlefoxes00stowuoft/page/n7 Archive.org].) 
* {{cite book|title=Men of our Times; or, Leading Patriots of the Day. Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher|location=Hartford, Conn.; New York|publisher=Hartford Publishing Co.; J.D. Denison|year=1868}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.abj6118.0001.001;view=1up;seq=13 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=The Chimney Corner|url=https://archive.org/details/chimneycorner00stow_0|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1868}} (Published under the name of Christopher Crowfield.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0tq6hd9p;view=1up;seq=7 HathiTrust].)* {{cite book|title=The American Woman's Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes|url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomansho00beecrich|location=New York; Boston|publisher=J.B. Ford and Company; H.A. Brown & Co.|year=1869}} (Written with [[Catherine Beecher]].) (Digitized version at [http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_26.cfm MSU Historic American Cookbook Project].) Textbook version: {{cite book|title=	Principles of Domestic Science as Applied to the Duties and Pleasures of Home: A Text-book for the use of Young Ladies in Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges|url=        https://archive.org/details/cu31924059238877
|location=New York|publisher=J.B. Ford and Company|year=1870}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/details/principlesofdome00beecrich/page/n3 Archive.com].)
* {{cite book|title=Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, from its beginning in 1816 to the present time|url=https://archive.org/details/ladybyronvin00stowrich|location=Boston|publisher=Fields, Osgood, & Co.|year=1870}} (Ebook available at [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44791 Project Gutenberg].)
* {{cite book|title=The Lives and Deeds of our Self-Made Men|url=https://archive.org/details/livesanddeedsou01stowgoog|location=Hartford, Conn.|publisher=Worthington, Dustin|year=1872}} (Digital copy at [https://archive.org/details/livesanddeedsou01stowgoog/page/n13 Archive.org].)
* {{cite book|title=Palmetto-Leaves|location=Boston|publisher=J.R. Osgood and Company|year=1873|title-link=Palmetto Leaves}} (Digital copy is hosted by [https://archive.org/details/palmettoleaves00stowgoog/page/n3 Archive.org].)
* {{cite book|title=Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources|url=https://archive.org/details/womaninsacredhis00stow|location=New York|publisher=J.B. Ford and Company|year=1873}} (Digital copy of 1874 printing is hosted at [https://archive.org/details/womaninsacredhis00stow/page/n7 Archive.org].)
* {{cite book|title=Footsteps of the Master|url=https://archive.org/details/footstepsmaster00stowgoog|location=New York|publisher=J.B. Ford & Company|year=1877}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah155x;view=1up;seq=26 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Bible Heroines, Being Narrative Biographies of Prominent Hebrew Women in the Patriarchal, National, and Christian Eras, Giving Views of Women in Sacred History, as Revealed in the Light of the Present Day|location=New York|publisher=Fords, Howard, & Hulbert|year=1878}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.rsm3x2;view=1up;seq=9 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives|url=https://archive.org/details/poganucpeopleth01stowgoog|location=New York|publisher=Fords, Howard, & Hulbert|year=1878}} [1878]. (Digital copy hosted at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.rsl29w;view=1up;seq=9 Hathi Trust].)
* {{cite book|title=A Dog's Mission; or, The Story of the Old Avery House and Other Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/adogsmission00stowarch|location=New York|publisher=Fords, Howard, and Hulbert|year=1880}} (Collection of children's stories consisting of "A Dog's Mission", "Lulu's Pupil", "The Daisy's First Winter", "Our Charley", "Take Care of the Hook", "A Talk about Birds", "The Nest in the Orchard" AND "The Happy Child".) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101071962045;view=1up;seq=11 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=He's Coming Tomorrow|location=Boston|publisher=James H. Earle}} [published between 1889 and 1883]. (Digital copy of 1901 edition published by Fleming N. Revell hosted by [https://archive.org/details/hescomingtomorro00stow/page/n7 Archive.org].)

====Collections====
* {{cite book|title=The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the Descendants of the Pilgrims|url=https://archive.org/details/mayflowerorsket00stowgoog|location=New York|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1843}} (Consists of the stories: "Love versus Law", "The Tea-rose", "Trials of a Housekeeper", "Little Edward", "[[Let Every Man Mind His Own Business]]", "Cousin William", "Uncle Tim", "Aunt Mary", "Frankness", "The Sabbath", "So many Calls", "The Canal-boat", "Feeling", "The Sempstress", "Old Father Morris". (Digital copy hosted by [https://archive.org/details/mayflowerorsket00stowgoog Archive.org].)
* {{cite book|title=Uncle Sam's Emancipation; Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline; and Other Sketches|url=https://archive.org/details/unclesamsemancip00stowrich|location=Philadelphia|publisher=W.P. Hazard|year=1853}} (Consists of the following sketches: "Account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe and her Family", "Uncle Sam's Emancipation", "Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline", "A Scholar's Adventure in the Country", "Children", "The Two Bibles", "Letter from Maine, No. 1", "Letter from Maine, No. 2", "Christmas; or, The Good Fairy".) (Digital copy hosted at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000005592586;view=1up;seq=5 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Evergreen: Being the Smaller Works of Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe|location=Belfast|publisher=Alex. S. Mayne|year=1853}} (A collection of works consisting of: "The New Year's Gift", "The Bible, The Source of Sure Comfort", "Make to Yourselves Driends", "Earthly Care, A Heavenly Discipline", "So Many Calls", "Learn of Children", "Anti-slavery Meeting in Glasgow, Letter from Mrs. Stowe to Dr Wardlaw".)
* {{cite book|title=Queer Little People|url=https://archive.org/details/queerlittlepeopl00stowrich|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor and Fields|year=1868}} (Published under the name of Christopher Crowfield.) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068604311;view=1up;seq=7 HathiTrust].) (Consists of the following stories: "The Hen That Hatched Ducks", "The Nutcracker of Nutcracker Lodge", "The History of Tip-Top", "Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket", "Mother Magpie's Micschief", "The Squirrels that Live in a House", "Hum, the Son of Buz", "Our Country Neighbors", "Our Dogs", "Dogs and Cats", "Aunt Esther's Rules", "Aunt Esther's Stories", "Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs" and "Country Neighbors Again".)
* {{cite book|title=Oldtown Fireside Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924022182418|location=Boston|publisher=J.R. Osgood|year=1872}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9d516d6v;view=1up;seq=13 HathiTrust].) (Consists of the stories: "The Ghost in the Mill", "The Sullivan Looking-Glass", "The Minister's Housekeeper", "The Widow's Bandbox", "Captain Kidd's Money", {{" '}}Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher{{'"}}, "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brownhouse".)
* {{cite book|title=Betty's Bright Idea [and Other Stories]|location=New York|publisher=J.B. Ford & Company|year=1876}} (In addition to the title story, the book includes "Deacon Pitkin's Farm" and "The First Christmas of New England".) (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433112007806;view=1up;seq=11 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite book|title=Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/samlawsonsoldtow0000stow_s4v2|location=Boston; New York|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Company|year=1887}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.aa0014828495;view=1up;seq=7 HathiTrust].) (Consists of: "The Ghost in the Mill", "The Sullivan Looking-Glass", "The Minister's Housekeeper", "The Widow's Bandbox", "Captain Kidd's Money", {{" '}}Mis' Elderkin's pitcher{{'"}}, "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House", "Colonel Eph's Shoebuckles", "The Bull-Fight", "How to Fight the Devil", "Laughin' in Meetin{{'"}}, "Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story", "The Parson's Horse-Race", "Oldtown Fireside Talks of the Revolution" and "A Student's Sea Story".)

===Stories and articles===
* {{cite journal|title=Cousin William|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-weekly-magazine_1838-09-22_1_3/page/18|journal=The Boston Weekly Magazine|volume=1|number=3|date=September 22, 1838|page=19}}
* {{cite journal|title=Old Father Morris|journal=Lady's Book|date=October 1838|page=145}}
* {{cite journal|title=Flower Gathering|journal=Southern Rose|volume=7|number=4|page=60|date=October 13, 1838}}
* {{cite journal|title=Trials of a Housekeeper|journal=Godey's Lady's Book|volume=XVIII|date=January 1839|page=4}}
* {{cite journal|title=Stealing Peaches|journal=Episcopal Recorder|volume=16|number=43|date=January 19, 1839|page=172}}
* {{cite journal|title=Olympiana|journal=Lady's Book|date=June 1839|page=241}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Drunkard Reclaimed (I)|journal=New York Evangelist|volume=10|number=48|date=November 30, 1839|page=1}} and {{cite journal|title=The Drunkard Reclaimed (II)|journal=New York Evangelist|volume=10|number=40|date=December 7, 1839|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Art and Nature|journal=Lady's Book|date=December 1839|page=241}}
* "Mark Meriden" in {{cite book|title=Mr. and Mrs. Woodbridge with Other Tales|url=https://archive.org/details/mrandmrswoodbri00leslgoog|editor=E. Leslie|location=Providence, R.I.|publisher=Isaac H. Cady |year=1841|page=[https://archive.org/details/mrandmrswoodbri00leslgoog/page/n131 129]}} (Digital copy hosted by [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074878574;view=1up;seq=133 HathiTrust].)
* {{cite journal|title=The Tea Rose|journal=Godey's Lady's Book|volume=24|number=3|date=March 1842|page=145}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Dancing School (I)|journal=New York Evangelist|volume=14|number=14|date=April 6, 1843|page=1}} and {{cite journal|title=The Dancing School (II)|journal=New York Evangelist|volume=14|number=14|date=April 13, 1843|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Family Circle|journal=Christian Reflector|volume=6|number=19|date=May 10, 1843}}
* {{cite journal|title=Feeling|journal=New York Evangelist|date=April 20, 1843|volume=14|number=16|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Now we see through a glass darkly|journal=New York Evangelist|date=June 8, 1843|volume=14|number=23|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Bashful Cousin|journal=Philanthropist|date=July 12, 1843|volume=7|number=44|page=4}}
* {{cite journal|title=So Many Calls|journal=Ladies Repository, and Gatherings of the West|date=September 1843|volume=3|page=278}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Nursery (I)|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_youths-companion_1843-10-26_17_25/page/98|journal=The Youth's Companion|date=October 26, 1843|volume=17|number=25|page=98}} and {{cite journal|title=The Nursery (II)|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_youths-companion_1843-11-02_17_26/page/102|journal=The Youth's Companion|date=November 2, 1843|volume=17|number=26|page=102}}
* {{cite journal|title=Which is the Liberal Man?|journal=New York Evangelist|date=February 1, 1844|volume=15|number=5|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Moralist and Miscellanist|journal=Christian Reflector|date=February 8, 1844|volume=7|number=6|page=24}}
* {{cite journal|title=Mark Meriden|journal=The Rover|date=August 7, 1844|volume=3|number=24|page=376}}
* {{cite journal|title=Tales and Sketches of Real Life|journal=Littell's Living Age|date=September 14, 1844|volume=2|number=18|page=339}}
* {{cite journal|title=Mary at the Cross|journal=New York Evangelist|date=November 28, 1844|volume=15|number=48|page=192}}
* {{cite journal|title=Love and Fear|journal=New York Evangelist|date=December 5, 1844|volume=15|number=49|page=196}}
* {{cite journal|title=Immediate Emancipation – A Sketch|journal=The Cincinnati Weekly Herald and Philanthropist|date=February 5, 1845|volume=9|number=21|page=2}}
* {{cite journal|title=Ladies' Department|journal=Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture|date=March 15, 1845|volume=4|number=24|page=4}}
* {{cite journal|title=Narrative|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_youths-companion_1845-04-03_18_48/page/190|journal=The Youth's Companion|date=April 3, 1845|volume=18 |number=48 |page=190}}
* {{cite journal |title=Slavery |journal=Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal |date=April 9, 1845 |volume=16 |number=15 |page=60}}
* {{cite journal|title=	The Interior or Hidden Life|journal=New York Evangelist|date=April 17, 1845 |volume=16 |number=16 |page=1}}.
* {{cite journal|title=Uncle Abel and Little Edatrd|journal=Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal|date=May 21, 1845 |volume=16 |number=21 |page=1}}.
* {{cite journal|title=A Tradition of the Church of Laodicea|journal=Episcopal Recorder|date=September 27, 1845|volume=23|number=28|page=109}}
* {{cite journal|title=Children|journal=New York Evangelist|date=January 15, 1846|volume=17|number=3|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=What will the American People do? (I)|journal=New York Evangelist|date=January 29, 1846|volume=17|number=5|page=1}} and {{cite journal|title=What will the American People do? (II)|journal=New York Evangelist|date=February 5, 1846|volume=17|number=6|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Parents and Children|journal=The New York Observer and Chronicle|date=August 8, 1946|volume=24|number=32|page=128}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Way to Live on Christ|journal=Christian Watchman|date=January 8, 1847|volume=28|number=2|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Feelings|journal=Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book|date=February 1848|volume=36|page=102}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Coral Ring|journal=Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book|date=June 1848|volume=36|page=340}}
* {{cite journal|title=Moral Tales (I)|journal=The Youth's Companion|date=September 14, 1848|volume=22|number=20|page=77}} and {{cite journal|title=Moral Tales (II)|journal=The Youth's Companion|date=September 21, 1848|volume=22|number=21|page=81}}
* {{cite journal|title=Atonement – A Historical Reverie|journal=New York Evangelist|date=December 28, 1948|volume=19|number=52|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=A Little Child Shall Lead Them|journal=Christian Parlor Magazine|date=May 1, 1850|page=248}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Freeman's Dream: A Parable|journal=National Era|date=August 1, 1850|volume=IV|number=31|page=121}}
* {{cite journal|title=Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline|journal=New York Evangelist|date=August 1, 1850|volume=21|number=1|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Heinrich Stilling|journal=New York Evangelist|date=February 6, 1851|volume=22|number=6|page=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One (I)|journal=New York Evangelist|date=June 12, 1851|volume=22|number=24|page=1}} and {{cite journal|title=The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One (II)|journal=New York Evangelist|date=June 19, 1851|volume=22|number=25|page=1}} (Reprinted in a collection of leading abolitionists with facsimile signatures of the authors: {{cite book|title=Autographs for Freedom|url=https://archive.org/details/autographsforfre00stow|location=London|publisher= Sampson Low, Son & Co.; and John Cassell|year=1853|page=[https://archive.org/details/autographsforfre00stow/page/88 88]}} Digitised by [https://archive.org/ Archive.org].)
* {{cite journal|title=A Reply|journal=The Atlantic Monthly|date=January 1863|volume=11|page=120|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1863/01/a-reply/308753/}}
* {{cite journal|title=The True Story of Lady Byron's Life|journal=The Atlantic Monthly|date=September 1869|volume=24|page=295}}

==See also==
* [[Origins of the American Civil War]]
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==Notes==
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==Further reading==
* Armbruster, Elif S. (2011). ''Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home''. New York: Peter Lang Academic Publishers. 
* {{cite journal |last1=Adams |first1=Bluford |title='A Word or Two on the Other Side': Harriet Beecher Stowe in the Debate Over Women's Health |journal=ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance |date=December 18, 2014 |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=593–633 |doi=10.1353/esq.2014.0019 |s2cid=161598914 |language=en |issn=1935-021X}} 
* {{cite journal |last1=DiMaggio |first1=Kenneth |title=Uncle Tom's Cabin: Global Best Seller, Anti-slave Narrative, Imperialist Agenda |journal=The Global Studies Journal |date=2014 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=15–23 |doi=10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/46892 }}
* {{cite book|ref=Hedrick1997|last=Hedrick|first=Joan D.|author-link=Joan D. Hedrick|editor=Richard Kopley|title=Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NO08DAAAQBAJ&q=Harriet+Beecher+Stowe.%22+%27%27Prospects+for+the+Study+of+American+Literature:+A+Guide+for+Scholars+and+Students&pg=PR9|access-date=September 20, 2018|date=August 1997|publisher=NYU Press|language=en|isbn=978-0-8147-4698-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/prospectsforstud0000unse/page/112 112–32]|chapter=Harriet Beecher Stowe|url=https://archive.org/details/prospectsforstud0000unse/page/112}} 
* {{cite book|last=Hedrick|first=Joan D.|author-link=Joan D. Hedrick|title=Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life|url=https://archive.org/details/harrietbeecherst00hedr|url-access=registration|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-506639-5}} Winner of the 1995 [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]].
* {{cite journal |last1=Holliger |first1=Andrea |title=America's Culture of Servitude at War: The Servant Problem, The Soldier Problem, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's House and Home Papers |journal=ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance |date=March 20, 2015 |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=37–72 |doi=10.1353/esq.2015.0004 |s2cid=159913134 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/31655/print |access-date=September 20, 2018 |language=en |issn=1935-021X|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kellow |first1=Margaret M.R. |title=Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography |journal=History Compass |date=November 2013 |volume=11 |issue=11 |pages=1008–20 |doi=10.1111/hic3.12100 |url=http://library.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/files/women%20and%20abolitionism%20in%20the%20US.pdf |access-date=September 20, 2018 |language=en |issn=1478-0542 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116202012/http://library.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/files/women%20and%20abolitionism%20in%20the%20US.pdf |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Rachel N. |title=Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Domestication of Free Labor Ideology |journal=Legacy |date=October 1, 2001 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=135–52 |doi=10.1353/leg.2001.0026 |s2cid=144096199 |language=en |issn=1534-0643}}
* Koester, Nancy. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life'' (Eerdmans, 2014). pp. xi, 371. 
*[[Louis Masur|Masur, Louis P.]] (ed.) ''"... the real war will never get in the books": Selections from Writers During the Civil War''. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-19-506868-8}}. Pages 235-251 include writings by Stowe.
* {{cite journal |last1=Nichols |first1=Anne |title=Harriet Beecher Stowe's Woman In Sacred History: Biblical Criticism, Evolution, and the Maternal Ethic. |journal=Religion & Literature |date=2016 |volume=47 |issue=3 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=08883769&AN=119242762&h=29uAPu%2FbpL1e3ybEQzojWHomD%2Bj6bbhS3wChLW6pf1LopaFZNDEGYLEu95WsQ7t%2FHRfQc6LuWNaHUBnVsL8OZQ%3D%3D&crl=c |access-date=September 20, 2018}}
* [[James Oakes (historian)|Oakes, James]] (2014). "Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her British Sisters", in ''The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War''. W. W. Norton & Company.
* {{cite journal |last1=Pelletier |first1=Kevin |title=David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Logic of Sentimental Terror |journal=African American Review |date=2013 |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=255–69 |language=en |issn=1945-6182|doi=10.1353/afa.2013.0079 |s2cid=142191833 }}
* Rogers, Lisa Waller (2025). ''When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, [[Abraham Lincoln]], and the [[Emancipation Proclamation]]''. Barrel Cactus Press. {{ISBN|9798999409621}}
* Scott, John Anthony (1978). ''Woman Against Slavery: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. {{ISBN|978-0-690-00701-5}}.
* Vollaro, Daniel R., [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0030.104/--lincoln-stowe-and-the-little-womangreat-war-story-the-%20making?rgn=main;view=fulltext "Lincoln, Stowe, and the 'Little Woman/Great War' Story: The Making, and Breaking, of a Great American Anecdote"], ''Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association'', vol. 30, issue 1 (Winter 2009).
* {{cite book | last = Wilson | first = Edmund |author-link=Edmund Wilson| title = [[Patriotic Gore]] | chapter=Harriet Beecher Stowe | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | date = 1962 |isbn=978-1-4668-9963-6 |oclc=269476}}

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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?75968-1/harriet-beecher-stowe Presentation by Joan Hedrick on ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life'', October 17, 1996], [[C-SPAN]]}}
* [http://www.thegreatcat.org/cats-19th-century-part-15-harriet-beecher-stowes-cat-calvin/ Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cat Calvin]
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* [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/wnr4c/index.htm Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'': an Electronic Edition of the ''National Era'' Version]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} –  Edited by textual scholar Wesley Raabe, this is the first edition of the novel to be based on the original text published in the ''National Era''
* [http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/ Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture] – A multimedia archive edited by Stephen Railton about the Stowe's novel's place in American history and society
* [http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/ Harriet Beecher Stowe House & Center] – Stowe's adulthood home in Hartford, Connecticut
* [http://www.stowesociety.org/ Harriet Beecher Stowe Society] – Scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the life and works of Harriet Beecher Stowe
* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Harriet+Beecher+Stowe&amode=words The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)]{{Gutenberg book|no=6702|name=Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe}}
* [http://Stowe.thefreelibrary.com/ Harriet Beecher Stowe's brief biography and works]
* [https://www.path2prayer.com/famous-christians-their-lives-and-writings-including-free-books/j-hudson-taylor-pioneer-missionary-to-china/harriet-beecher-stowe-how-to-live-on-christ "How To Live on Christ", a pamphlet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, taken from her Introduction to Christopher Dean's ''Religion As It Should Be or The Remarkable Experience and Triumphant Death of Ann Thane Peck'' published in 1847]{{snd}}Hudson Taylor sent a pamphlet using the words of this preface out to all the missionaries of the China Inland Mission in 1869.
* [http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/uncltom1.asp Barron's BookNotes for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' – The Author and Her Times]
* [http://www.c-span.org/video/?164395-1/writings-harriet-beecher-stowe "Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe"] from [[C-SPAN]]'s ''[[American Writers: A Journey Through History]]''
* [http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=10 Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Horace Mann, 2 March 1852] from the Horace Mann Papers III at the Massachusetts Historical Society, retrieved June 4, 2012
* [https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/4857 Beecher-Stowe family Papers.] [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
* [http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/cholera.htm The 1849 Cholera Epidemic in Kentucky and Ohio and its connection to Harriet Beecher Stowe's] "[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]"
* Michals, Debra [https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-beecher-stowe "Harriet Beecher Stowe"]. National Women's History Museum. 2017.
* [https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/PRIN_MUDD_C1217 Stowe family collection] from [https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/ Princeton University Library. Special Collections]

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