Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher]

Ct., 1811-1896. Wife of C. E. Stowe, supra, and daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. In 1836 she was married to Profe or Stowe at Cincinnati, and, in frequent visits to the slave States at that period, acquired a knowledge of Southern customs. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impre ed with the wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin for The National Era at Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till April, 1852. It was then published in book form and speedily became world-famous, five hundred you sand copies being sold in America within five years, while translations of it appeared in twenty languages. As a moral agent few books have been of so much importance. From a literary point of view there is le to be said of it; and The Minister’s Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr’s Island; Dred; The Chimney Corner; Religious Poems, among which is the well-known hymn, “Still, still with Thee.” Her le er works comprise, My Wife and I; Sam Lawson’s Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers; Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy’s First Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman’s Home (with Catherine Beecher); Little Pu y Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Palmetto Leaves; Betty’s Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible Heroines; Poganuc People; A Dog’s Mi ion. See Life of, by her Son; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1882, August and September, 1896; The Century Magazine, September, 1896; New England Magazine, September, 1896; The Forum, August, 1896; The Outlook, July 25, 1896; Life of, by Mrs. Fields, supra. Fo. Hou.