Harriet Beecher Stowe lived a long, involved and historically relevant life. From her early years, to the publishing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and her resulting meteoric rise to fame, to her introduction to Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life cannot simply be described as ordinary. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut to her parents Lyman and Roxanna Beecher, she was the seventh of nine children from Roxanna; after Roxanna died when Harriet was only four or five years old, Lyman married Harriet Porter, whom he had four more children with (Fields, 7-9; "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life,” n.p.; Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 16; C. Stowe, 2; C. Stowe and L. Stowe, 1). Harriet Beecher was raised in a household that expected great things from…show more content… In 1824, Harriet Beecher attended Hartford Female Seminary, which was founded by her sister Catherine, and later went on to teach there ("Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life,” n.p.; C. Stowe and L. Stowe, 38-42). Even before her more formal education, Harriet Beecher learned to make persuasive arguments at her family’s dinner table as the Beecher’s took in residents from Tapping Reeve’s law school ("Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life,” n.p.). Later on, Harriet Beecher married Calvin Stowe, a theology professor, January 6, 1836, and they had seven children together (Beecher, Stowe, and Tonkovich, n.p.; Fields, 91; “Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life,” n.p.; C. Stowe and L. Stowe, 96; Stowe, The Minister’s Wooing, n.p.). She lost one of her children, eighteen month old Samuel Charles Stowe to cholera, and
