Here are some facts about Harriet Beecher Stowe:
* She was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, to Lyman Beecher, a prominent Congregationalist minister, and Roxana Foote Beecher.
* She had six older siblings, including Henry Ward Beecher, who also became a prominent clergyman and abolitionist.
* She grew up in a religious and intellectual environment, and her father's views on abolition and social reform influenced her own thinking.
* In 1832, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.
* They had seven children together, but three died in infancy or childhood.
* In 1850, the Stowes moved to Brunswick, Maine, where Calvin Stowe became a professor at Bowdoin College.
* While living in Cincinnati, Stowe witnessed the horrors of slavery firsthand, and she became an active abolitionist.
* In 1852, she published Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that depicted the cruelties of slavery and the impact it had on the lives of both enslaved people and slave owners.
* The novel was a huge success, selling over 300,000 copies in its first year and being translated into more than 20 languages.
* It helped to raise public awareness of the issue of slavery and is credited with contributing to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
* After the war, Stowe continued to write and lecture on abolition and women's rights. She also supported other social reforms, such as prison reform and education for African Americans.
* She died on July 1, 1896, at her home in Hartford, Connecticut.
* Harriet Beecher Stowe is considered one of the most influential writers in American history.