The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is open year round.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published more than 30 books, but it was her best selling novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that galvanized the Anti-Slavery movement and turned Stowe into an international celebrity. Stowe was the middle child of the influential Beecher family whose prominent members included her noted sisters, the education reformer Catharine Beecher and the women's rights activist Isabella Beecher Hooker. Stowe's final home, located in Hartford, Connecticut, is the heart of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
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The Stowe Center maintains Stowe's home and collections, and holds the world's most extensive collection of manuscripts and materials related to the life and works of the extended Beecher/Stowe family. The library also contains material on women's rights, and African-American history. Stowe Center visitors explore Stowe's1871 home and Victorian gardens and grounds that surround it; the 1884 Katharine Seymour Day House, which houses the Center's research library, exhibition space and administrative offices; and the 1873 Visitor Center and Museum Shop.
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The back parlor of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House is filled with family memorabilia including artwork by Stowe herself.
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The kitchen of the Harriet Beecher Stowe
house is based on designs published in The American Woman's Home (1869)
co-authored by Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Through tours, school programs, and special presentations, the Stowe Center tells the stories of this influential family, the important roles they played in nineteenth- century U.S. history, and inspires individuals to embrace Harriet Beecher Stowe's commitment to social justice.
To learn about events at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, please visit our News and Events page.
Visit the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center website at www.harrietbeecherstowe.org
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