Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 14, 1811-July 1, 1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe is most well known for her anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. However, while living in Hartford, she wrote The American Woman’s Home, an book that celebrates domestic life while teaching women how to decorate their homes.
“All men are free and equal, in the grave.”
-HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1864, she moved to Hartford with her family. They chose to live in Nook Farm, the same neighborhood where Mark Twain, and other notable figures, lived as well.
Link to Harriet Beecher Stowe Center website: https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/
According to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center website, she also “worked to reinvigorate the art museum at the Wadsworth Atheneum” while living in Hartford.
