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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center’s mission is to encourage social justice and literary activism by exploring the legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Our vision is a world in which engagement leads to empathy, empowerment, and change for good.
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is a non-traditional museum...
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After his retirement, the family moved to Hartford, CT....
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life. It was her family's second home in Hartford.
Dec 2, 2019 · Day lived in the Stowe house from 1927 until her death in 1964. During those years, Day collected manuscripts and objects connected to her famous aunt, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the house’s Hartford neighborhood, Nook Farm. In 1968, after extensive renovation, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House opened to the public as a museum.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was born in Litchfield, CT, and is best known as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a novel that helped galvanize the anti-slavery movement. Stowe’s literary activism changed hearts and minds—and also through the Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, drew attention to the Black writers and abolitionists who ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), an antislavery novel of enormous impact in the United States, had lifelong associations with Hartford. She permanently moved to the city in 1864 and resided on Forest Street from 1873 until her death in 1896.
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