Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into a prominent, religious, Calvinist family in Litchfield, Connecticut on 14 June 1811. She married a seminary professor, Calvin Ellis Stowe, and had seven children, several of whom died during childhood. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', her first novel, was published in 1852 and provoked, to Mrs. Stowe's satisfaction, an intense and undeniable reaction -- at home and abroad -- against American slavery. She wrote many more novels, none of them as famous or important as her first, the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century. She eventually rejected strenuously the Calvinist teachings of her youth, replacing them with a more merciful and forgiving religious philosophy.

  • When was
    Harriet Beecher Stowe born?

    Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on Friday, June 14, 1811

  • Where was
    Harriet Beecher Stowe born?

    Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

  • How old was
    Harriet Beecher Stowe when they died?

    Harriet Beecher Stowe was 85

  • When did Harriet Beecher Stowe die?

    Harriet Beecher Stowe died on
    Wednesday, July 1, 1896


Best Quotes

  • Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education—if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enj...
  • A woman's health is her capital.
  • Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
  • No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
  • When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
  • When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
  • What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
  • Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
  • Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.
  • In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

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