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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe c.1870
Pen name Christopher Crowfield
Spouse(s) Calvin Ellis Stowe (m. 1836; d. 1886)
Children 7
Relative(s) Beecher family
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/st/; 14 June 1811 1 July 1896) ek American lekhak aur abolitionist rahii. Uu Beecher palwaar se aae rahii aur ek jaana-maana novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) ke likhe rahii, jisme uu enslaved African Americans ke stithi ke baare me likhe hae. Ii book ke dher million log parrhe rahin United States aur Great Britain me , aur ii anti-slavery forces ke American North me barrhaawa diis rahaa, lekin isse America ke south me log bahut gussa me rahin. Stowe, 30 books se jaada book likhe rahii, jisme novels, tiin travel memoirs, aur articles aur chitthii ke sanghraa rahaa. Uske influence duuno uske lekh aur public stances and bahas on social issues of the day, me rahaa.

Jindagi aur kaam

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher ke janam Litchfield, Connecticut me, on June 14, 1811 me bhais rahaa.[1] Uu 11 larrkan me se 6th rahii.[2] Uske pitaji outspoken Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher rahaa. Harriet ke maiyaa Beecher ke pahila aurat, Roxana (Foote) rahii, jin ekdam dharmik rahii aur jon September 25, 1816 me mar gay rahii, jab Harriet khaali paanch saal ke rahii.[3] Roxana ke naana General Andrew Ward rahaa, jon Revolutionary War me larre rahaa.[4] Harriet ke siblings me rahaa, ek bahini, Catharine Beecher, jon ek teacher aur lekhak bane rahii, aur bhaiyaa log jon ministers bane rahin, jisme famous preacher aur abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, aur Charles Beecher aur Edward Beecher rahaa.[5]

Harriet Hartford Female Seminary me bharti bhay rahii jiske uske barraa bahini Catharine chalaawat rahii, jahaan pe uske ek traditional academic sikchaa rahaan – jon utime ke women ke khaatir uncommon rahaa – jisme focus classics, bhasa, aur mathematics rahaa. Uske classmate me Sarah P. Willis rahii, jon baad me pseudonym Fanny Fern ke niche likhe rahii.[6]

References

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  1. McFarland, Philip. Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 112. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7.
  2. Hedrick 1994, p. 6.
  3. McFarland 2007, p. 125.
  4. Kelley, Mary (1984). Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503351-9.
  5. Applegate, Debby (2006). The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42400-6.
  6. Warren, Joyce W. Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992: 21. ISBN 0-8135-1763-X.