HARRIET See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

ELIZABETH [See also:

• BEECHER, CHARLES EMERSON (1856-1904)
• BEECHER, HENRY WARD (1813-1887)
• BEECHER, LYMAN (1775—1863)

BEECHER] See also:

• HARRIET ELIZABETH [BEECHER] STOWE (1811-1896)

STOWE (1811-1896)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American writer and philanthropist, seventh See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child of Lyman and See also:

• ROXANA, or ROXANE

Roxana (See also:

• FOOTE
• FOOTE, ANDREW HULL (1806-1863)
• FOOTE, SAMUEL (1720-1777)

Foote) See also:

• BEECHER, CHARLES EMERSON (1856-1904)
• BEECHER, HENRY WARD (1813-1887)
• BEECHER, LYMAN (1775—1863)

Beecher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LITCHFIELD

Litchfield, See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, U.S.A., on the 14th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1811 . Her See also:

• FATHER

father (the Congregational See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the See also:

• TOWN

town) and her See also:

• MOTHER

mother were both descended from members of the See also:

• COMPANY

company that, under See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• DAVENPORT
• DAVENPORT, EDWARD LOOMIS (1816-1877)
• DAVENPORT, ROBERT (fl. 1623—1639)

Davenport, founded New Haven in 1638;. and the community in which she spent her childhood was one of the most intellectual in New See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . At her mother's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1815 she came must directly under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of her eldest See also:

• SISTER

sister See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine, eleven years her See also:

• SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior, a woman of keen See also:

• INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

intellect, who a few years later set up a school in See also:

• HARTFORD

Hartford to which Harriet went, first as a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, afterwards as teacher . In 1832 her father, who had for six years been the pastor of a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, accepted the See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency of the newly founded See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane Theological See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary at See also:

• CINCINNATI

Cincinnati . Catherine Beecher, who was eager to establish what should be in effect a See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college for See also:

• WOMEN

women, accompanied him; and with her went Harriet as an assistant, taking an active See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• LITERARY

literary and school See also:

• LIFE

life, contributing stories and sketches to See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• JOURNALS

journals and compiling a school See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography . Sbe was married on the 6th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1836 to one of the professors in, the seminary, See also:

• CALVIN, JOHN (1509-1564)

Calvin See also:

• ELLIS (originally SHARPE), ALEXANDER JOHN (1814-189o)
• ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815)
• ELLIS, ROBINSON (1834- )
• ELLIS, SIR HENRY (1777-1869)
• ELLIS, WILLIAM (1794 – 1872)

Ellis See also:

• STOWE, HARRIET ELIZABETH [BEECHER] (1811-1896)

Stowe . In the midst of privation and anxiety, due largely to her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband's See also:

• PRECARIOUS

precarious See also:

• HEALTH

health, she wrote continually, and in 1843• published The See also:

• MAYFLOWER

Mayflower, a collection of tales and sketches . Mrs Stowe passed eighteen years in Cincinnati under conditions which constantly thrust the problem of human See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery upon her See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . A See also:

• RIVER

river only separated See also:

• OHIO

Ohio from a slave-holding community . Slaves were continually escaping from their masters, and were harboured, on their way to See also:

• CANADA

Canada, by the circle in which Mrs Stowe lived . In the See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical questions which arose, and in the See also:

• GREAT

great debate which was See also:

• POLITICAL

political, economical and moral, she took a very active part . When, therefore, in 185o, Mr Stowe was elected to a professorship in See also:

• BOWDOIN, JAMES (1726—1790)

Bowdoin College, See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick, See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Maine, and removed his See also:

• FAMILY

family thither, Mrs Stowe was prepared 't the great See also:

• WORK

work which came to her, See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit by bit,. as a religious See also:

• MESSAGE (a word occurring in slightly different forms in several languages, e.g. Fr. message, Span. mensaje, Ital. messagio; adapted from the Low Lat. missaticum, from mittere)

message which she must deliver .

In the quiet of a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country town, far removed from actual contact with painful scenes, but on the edge of the whirlwind raised by the . Fugitive Slave See also:

• BILL

Bill, memory . and See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination had full See also:

• SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)

scope, and she wrote for serial publication in The See also:

• NATIONAL

National Era, an See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-slavery See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper of See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington, D.C., the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of " See also:

• UNCLE

Uncle Tom's See also:

• CABIN

Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly." The publication in See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form (See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 20, 1852) was a See also:

• FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

factor which must be reckoned in summing up the moving causes of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war for the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union . The book sprang into unexampled popularity, and was translated into at least twenty-three See also:

• TONGUES, GIFT OF, or GLOSSOLALIA (yXwova, tongue, aXeiv, speak)

tongues . Mrs Stowe used the reputation thus won in promoting a moral and religious enmity to slavery . She reinforced her story with A See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she accumulated a large number of documents and testimonies against the great evil; and in 1853 she made a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, devoting herself especially to creating an entente cordiale between Englishwomen and Americans on the question of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . In 1856 she published Dred; a See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

Tale of the See also:

• DISMAL

Dismal Swamp, in which she threw the See also:

• WEIGHT

weight of her See also:

• ARGUMENT

argument on the deterioration of a society resting on a slave basis . The See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of The See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic Monthly in 1857 gave her a See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant vehicle for her writings, as did also The See also:

• INDEPENDENT

Independent of New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, and later The See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Union, of each of which papers successively her See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

Ward Beecher, was one of the editors . From this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time forth she led the life of a woman of letters, See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing novels, of which The Minister's Wooing (1859) is best known, and many studies of social life in the form both of fiction and See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay . She published also a small See also:

• VOLUME

volume of religious poems, and towards the end of her career gave some public readings from her writings . In 1852 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor Stowe accepted a professorship in the Theological Seminary at See also:

• ANDOVER

Andover, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, and the family made its See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home there till 1863, when he retired wholly from professional life and removed to Hartford . After the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the war for the Union Mrs Stowe bought .an See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate in See also:

• FLORIDA

Florida, chiefly in See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope of restoring the health of her son, See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick Beecher Stowe, who had been wounded in the war, and in this See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern home she spent many winters . After the death of her husband in 1886 she passed the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of her life in the seclusion of her Hartford home, where she died on the 1st of See also:

• JULY

July 1896 .

She is buried by the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of her husband at Andover . See Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, compiled from her letters and journals by her son, See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• EDWARD

Edward Stowe (Boston, 1890) . Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Annie See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

Fields (Boston, 1898) . (H . E .