Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut to Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher.  Whiling living in America since 1637, Harriet faced a tough time living in poverty and wit the death of the mother (not sure what this means were the Beecher's really poor?) . Lyman Beecher remarried after his wife died in(when did she die?), to Harriet Porter.  Harriet Porter Beecher gave birth to four children later died (when?).  Lyman then married Lydia Jackson in 1836. They had no children.

      Harriet grew up in a strict household.  She lived in a household where their father was the man of the house. He made the rules and they were told to follow them.  Lyman Beecher did not beleive in privelages.  He was a bully (is this the wording used in one of your sources if so cite) to his kids and had no problem with whipping them. His view was “spare the rod” (Harriet stowed by john Adams pg. 20) He felt more powerful with torture (is this your interpretation or in one of the texts?), and giving them negative thoughts because he had such an issue with high spirits. In their family Lyman was very strict when it was about religion. Lyman Beecher was a well known Congregationalist minster. So it was not a weekly thing when the children would read and talk about the bible, he thought it should be done continuously throughout the day. So his children had no choice, the males were forced to be ministers and follow in their father’s footsteps. But the women Lyman didn’t really care too much about. Not that he didn’t love his daughters but he felt that women were suppose to just get married, have kids, be housewives. As a child Harriet felt that she suffered neglect from her father and time again she wishes she had her mother. As she started growing up Lyman started to see how smart she was and wished she was a boy.  Harriet spent most of her time with her brothers.  She was very close in age to her (younger? older?) brother Henry. They both attended a dame school but later at eleven Harriet was sent to Litchfield Academy. 

     By the age of twelve Harriet was sent away to Hartford, where her older sister Catherine lived. When moving there Harriet was informed that she had to learn discipline and direction. While living there Catherine found love. She married her Professor Fisher from Yale University (at 12?  or is there some time inbetween?).  After a short time of marrtiage Fisher died in a terrible shipwreck, which led Catherine feeling devastated. She was having such a hard time dealing with his death emotionally that she almost had a mental collapse. So she decided that it was best to focus her attention towards something other than being sad. So she decided to focus on education. In 1824 Catherine decided to get her funds together and establish a school called Hartford Female Seminary, which was a female college for women. While living with her sister and her ideas of the Hartford Female Seminary was beyond Harriet’s comprehension because Catherine did not finish school.  (unclear sentence)  Catherine wanted to learn chemistry, math, Latin, and other areas, yet she had a hard time with it.  So Harriet decided to help her with her studies and Catherine became the assistant of the school.

     By 1832 Harriet decided to move back with her father in Cincinnati, but she still continued to work as an assistant at the Hartford School for Women. While living in Cincinnati and selling her books (what books?) Harriet associated herself with the slaves.  She did not live far from Ohio (Cincinatti is in Ohio, did she visit a friend's plantation, a specific planstation....?)  so went and visited their plantation.   In 1836, Harriet met and fell in love with Calvin Stowe. Mr. Stowe was a charming and amusing person who was (how many years? not way) older than Harriet. He worked as a teacher at Dartmouth College and Lane Seminary. They were married January 6,  (which year? )but Harriet was not happy (why not). He was not like her father, but they had very similar qualities. Mr. Stowe was not a strict man he just knew how he wanted Harriet to conduct herself. He was very religious just like her father and he happened to be the president of Lyman’s professional of Saving the West orthodox (is this the specific name of an organization?). By September 29, (year?) Harriet gave birth to twin girls, followed by another five children. As time went on Harriet began to regret being married. She did not feel that being a housewife was all she could be. She wanted more out of life. So Harriet began to write because of lack of money.  Although she honored him and all his accomplishments she pitied Stowe because he was so depressed over his last wife.  That that was as much as they had in common (why did they have that in common was harriet friends with stowes wife?). She married a man that she did not love and that she did not have any feelings for, to a childhood friend Beecher wrote “nothing at all” (Harriet by John Adams pg 26)  (what does nothing at all mean?  did many women marry for love in this period or are you reading modern beliefs into HBS's life?)

     In 1850 there was passage of the Fugitive Act.  A few months later Harriett’s 18 month old son died of cholera.  After his death Harriet had a vision that something was not right about slavery. So she took it upon herself to go visit the plantation (which plantation?)  Harriet then decided that it was now time for her to start writing about slavery, about the things that she had been through.  (she had been a slave?  how are the things that she went through relevant to slavery?)  By June 5 1851, the National Era was going to publish bits and pieces of her stories.  When Harriet put Uncle Tom’s Cabin out it quickly sold out, about 325,000 copies were sold in the first year.  As the book spent time selling out around the world, Harriet did not get to see much profit from the book. After putting so much work into the price structuring, and the issues that weren’t authorized(unclear).   Harriett wanted this novel to explain the pain and suffering that the slaves went through. She wanted people to see that slavery was a sin and that people should stop having African Americans suffer. (Women history. About.com/Harriet Beecher Stowe)

 In 1859 Beecher wrote another novel call the Minster Wooing. This book was about her son drowning while he was attending Dartmouth College and how much she missed him. But things changed for Harriet in 1869. Even though none of her work was as popular as Uncles Tom’s Cabin, Beecher still wrote an article in The Atlantic about a young man sleeping with his half sister.  But as the story was coming out and Byron was upset the tragedy hit when her son was lost at sea( ??unclear??). Harriet mourned his death, even though she still had the twins at home.

             In 1881 Harriet celebrated her seventieth birthday but  she did not really show up in public often. After Stowe died in 1886, she remained in her bed until she died.  (when was that?) Growing up Beecher had an uptight upbringing. But she fought a way to handle all her neglect and manage to be one of the best authors of her time.