Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe died in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 1, 1896. She was eighty-five. Born in Litchfield on June 14, 1811, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin after the Fugitive Slave Act, and the novel did more to move Northern opinion against slavery than a decade of sermons. She was a Beecher, a teacher, a mother who knew grief, and a professional writer who kept producing after fame arrived. Hartford's Nook Farm was the later neighborhood, next door to the Clemens house for a time. The book remains more complicated than the stage versions. The grave is in Andover, Massachusetts, with her husband.