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See also:STOWE, HARRIET See also:ELIZABETH [See also:BEECHER] (1811-1896) , See also:American writer and philanthropist, seventh See also:child of Lyman and See also:Roxana (See also:Foote) Beecher, was See also:born at See also:Litchfield, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., on the 14th of See also:June 1811. Her See also:father (the Congregational See also:minister of the See also:town) and her See also:mother were both descended from members of the See also:company that, under See also:John See also: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. At her mother's See also:death in 1815 she came must directly under the See also:influence of her eldest See also:sister See also:Catherine, eleven years her See also:senior, a woman of keen See also:intellect, who a few years later set up a school in See also: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, accepted the See also:presidency of the newly founded See also:Lane Theological See also:Seminary at See also:Cincinnati. Catherine Beecher, who was eager to establish what should be in effect a See also:pioneer See also:college for See also:women, accompanied him; and with her went Harriet as an assistant, taking an active See also:part in the See also:literary and school See also:life, contributing stories and sketches to See also:local See also:journals and compiling a school See also:geography. Sbe was married on the 6th of See also:January 1836 to one of the professors in, the seminary, See also:Calvin See also:Ellis Stowe. In the midst of privation and anxiety, due largely to her See also:husband's See also:precarious See also:health, she wrote continually, and in 1843• published The See also: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 upon her See also:attention. A See also:river only separated See also:Ohio from a slave-holding community. Slaves were continually escaping from their masters, and were harboured, on their way to See also:Canada, by the circle in which Mrs Stowe lived. In the See also:practical questions which arose, and in the See also:great debate which was See also: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 College, See also:Brunswick, See also:Maine, and removed his See also:family thither, Mrs Stowe was prepared 't the great See also:work which came to her, See also:bit by bit,. as a religious See also:message which she must deliver. In the quiet of a See also: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, memory . and See also: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 Era, an See also:anti-slavery See also:paper of See also:Washington, D.C.,
the See also:story of " See also:Uncle Tom's See also:Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly." The publication in See also:book See also:form (See also:March 20, 1852) was a See also:factor which must be reckoned in summing up the moving causes of the See also:war for the See also:Union. The book sprang into unexampled popularity, and was translated into at least twenty-three See also: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 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 to See also:Europe, devoting herself especially to creating an entente cordiale between Englishwomen and Americans on the question of the See also:day. In 1856 she published Dred; a See also:Tale of the See also:Dismal Swamp, in which she threw the See also:weight of her See also:argument on the deterioration of a society resting on a slave basis. The See also:establishment of The See also:Atlantic Monthly in 1857 gave her a See also:constant vehicle for her writings, as did also The See also:Independent of New See also:York, and later The See also:Christian Union, of each of which papers successively her See also: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 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. She published also a small See also:volume of religious poems, and towards the end of her career gave some public readings from her writings. In 1852 See also:Professor Stowe accepted a professorship in the Theological Seminary at See also:Andover, See also:Massachusetts, and the family made its See also:home there till 1863, when he retired wholly from professional life and removed to Hartford. After the See also:close of the war for the Union Mrs Stowe bought .an See also:estate in See also:Florida, chiefly in See also:hope of restoring the health of her son, See also:Captain See also:Frederick Beecher Stowe, who had been wounded in the war, and in this See also:southern home she spent many winters. After the death of her husband in 1886 she passed the See also:rest of her life in the seclusion of her Hartford home, where she died on the 1st of See also:July 1896. She is buried by the See also:side of her husband at Andover.
See Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, compiled from her letters and journals by her son, See also:Charles See also:Edward Stowe (Boston, 1890). Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Annie See also:Fields (Boston, 1898). (H. E.
End of Article: STOWE, HARRIET ELIZABETH [BEECHER] (1811-1896)
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