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Srowa, Mrs. arriet Elizabeth Beecher, a
modern American authoress, who was one of
the twelve children of the Rev. Lyman Beecher,
an eminent Presbyterian preacher of the United
States. At an early age she assisted her sister
Catherine Esther Beecher in teaching a school
which had been opened by the latter at Hart-
ford; but, upon the removal of her family to
Cincinnati, in 1832, she became acquainted with,
and married, her father’s colleague, the Rev.
Professor Calvin E. Stowe, well known, both
in England and America, as a writer upon thee-
logical subiects. Her first cil‘ots in litera-
ture took the shape of tales and ways, written
for a charitable purpose, and inserted in the
magazines and newspapers of her native coun-
__try. Both her husband and father had long
.1 Iron a warm interest in the “peculiar institu-
tion” which forms the great question of the
“American republic, and both had enrolled
vthcmselvcs among the most energetic members
‘01" the Abolition Convention. Their hearty
denunciations of slavery proved so distasteful
to the people of Cincinnati, that both the
reverend gentlemen were at length compelled
to resign their appointments there. In 1350
Professor Stowe accepted the chair of Biblical
Literature in the Theological College of An-
dover, Massachusetts; and it was while a resi-
dent there that Mrs. Stowe wrote her famous
tale of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,“ which at first
appeared in the ”Washington National Era.”
Upon its republication it attained a circulation
of 200,000 copies in the United States; and this
great success was but the forerunner of a still

 

 

  

    
     
   
      
       
   
     

  

  

 

 
       
   
       
  
         
       
 
      

more extraordinary one, obtained in England
and elsewhere. The work was translated into
and literally went the round of
the globe. Its statements naturally evoked
tile criticism in the United States,
and in answer to her opponents Mrs. Stowe
1853, a “Key to Uncle Tom’s

every language,

much hos

L‘ahin,’

Accompanied
visited Englan
several places in Grc
the continent, she, a
native country,
sions, in a work
Foreign Lands.”

published, in

in which she gave many l
documents as the basis of her representations.
by her husband and brother, she
(I in 1853, and, after a sojourn in
at Britain, as well as upon
fter her return to her
produced her travelling impres-
entitled “Sunny Memories of
In 1856 she published “ Dred,

acts and

a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp ;" in 1859 a

work upon the social con

dition of the United

States, entitled ”The Minister’s Wooing ;” and

Folk.”

hill Magazine,’

quoted, Mrs.

contributed a tale to the pages of the “Corn-
’ under the title off‘Agncs of
Surrento.” In addition to the works already
Stowe wrote, “The Mayflower ; or.
Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the
Descendants of the PH, rims ;” “Temperance
Tales,” and anumber 0 smaller efl‘usions ; and
in 1869 published a, novel called “ Old Town
B. at Lichiield, Connecticut, 1814.