Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1824 she went to Hartford, at first to study, later to teach in her sister Catherines school. When her father became...abolitionists, whom she considered extremists. The mother of six children, she was constantly harassed by financial worries, for...