Biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born: 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Died: 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Occupation: writer
Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811, Harriet was the seventh of Lyman
Beecher's nine children by his first wife, Roxana. Beecher, a famous evangelical
Calvinist minister, was a demanding father who stressed strict adherence
to Puritan values in the upbringing of his children. They moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1824 Harriet began to attend the Hartford Female Academy, a school founded by her older sister Catharine, a pioneer in women's ed…