文档介绍：Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born: June 14, 1811Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Died: July 1, 1896 (aged 85)Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Pen name:
Christopher Crowfield
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist(废奴主义者) and author. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was the seventh of 13 children. At the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832 to join her father, who had e the president of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club.
In June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in serial in the newspaper National Era. She originally used the subtitled “The Man That Was A Thing”, but it was soon changed to “Life Among the Lowly”. Installments were published weekly from June 5,1851,to April 1, 1852. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in book form on March 20,1852. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies.
Her work
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
The Minister's Wooing (1859)
Old Town Folks (1869)
Palmetto Leaves (1873)
Sources
Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom‘s Cabin by the slave narrative The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada. Henson, a formerly enslaved black man, had lived and worked on a 3,700 acres o plantation in North Bethesda贝塞斯达, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 by fleeing to the Province of Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he helped other fugitive逃亡的 slaves settle and e self-sufficient, and where he wrote his memoirs. Stowe acknowledged in 1853 that Henson's writings