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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield Connecticut on June 14 1811. She was the 7th child of 13 http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/12.07/photos/24-daguerrotypes1-400.jpg

Harriet Beecher moves with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father has a job at Lane Theological Seminary. She joins a literary group known as the Semi-Colon Club and begins to hone her writing style. There she also meets her husband. http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/beecher/images/beecher_005.jpg

The couple's seventh and last child, son Charles Edward, is born. Calvin Stowe becomes a professor at Bowdoin College, causing the family to move to Brunswick, Maine. The Stowes are upset about the Fugitive Slave Act, a new law that makes it a crime to assist anyone escaping slavery.http://www.mainememory.net/media/images/450/75/16511.JPG

The Stowes move from Andover to Hartford, Connecticut. Stowe oversees the building of a lavish house called Oakholm.http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/beecher/images/beecher_003.jpg

The Stowe family moves into their final home, a house on Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The author Mark Twain and his family occupy the house across the street.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote many diffrent books from 1852 to 1878http://www.lacrosselibrary.org/userfiles/image/Reference/Books.jpg

Wrote the book Uncle Toms Cabinhttp://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/illustra/figures/cover15.jpg

Stowe published Palmetto Leaves http://ia700806.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/25/items/olcovers569/olcovers569-L.zip&file=5693430-L.jpg

Roxana Beecher Harriets mother dies of tuberculosis. Reverend Lyman Beecher is now a widower with six surviving children. He remarries a year later and fathers four more children with his new wife. Harriet was only 4 years old http://orourke09.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/file/view/tlAL00530.jpg/143244501/tlAL00530.jpg

Harriet attends Hartford Female Seminary, a school run by her older sister Catharine. She will begin teaching at the school after graduatinghttp://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/beecher/images/beecher_009.jpg