1. By: Kendrea Lewis Mrs. Duncan American Literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe
By: Kendrea Lewis
Mrs. Duncan
American Literature

2. Childhood/Family Born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut
1 of thirteen children born to Rev. Lyman Beecher and his wife, Roxanna Foote Beecher, who died when Harriet was a child
seven brothers grew up to be ministers, including the famous leader Henry Ward Beecher.
sister Catharine Beecher was an author and a teacher who helped to shape Harriet’s social views.
Another sister, Isabella, became a leader of the cause of women’s rights.

3. Education Harriet believed her purpose in life was to write.
enrolled in a school run by Catharine, following the traditional course of classical learning usually reserved for young men.
At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father had become the head of the Lane Theological Seminary.

4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

7. Works Cited http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/
Lenz, Millicent. "Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe." American Writers for Children Before Ed. Glenn E. Estes. Detroit: Gale Research, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 42. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 20 Nov