Harriet Beecher Stowe

Scandal in the Beecher Family

November 2, 2019 • Everyday Life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Popular Culture

An alleged affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Henry Ward Beecher became public in 1872 and inspired a series of lawsuits for libel. The incident involved one of the state’s most respected citizens and religious leaders and attracted national attention.

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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education

September 5, 2019 • Education, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Litchfield, Women

Sister to two of the most famous figures of the 19th century–Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher–Catharine Esther Beecher achieved fame in her own right as an educator, reformer, and writer.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born – Today in History: July 3

July 3, 2019 • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Literature, Women

On July 3, 1860, Charlotte Anna Perkins (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)…

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Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout

June 24, 2019 • Belief, Civil War, Expansion and Reform, Harriet Beecher Stowe

This skilled orator championed woman suffrage, temperance, and the cause of anti-slavery but scandal nearly derailed his career.

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Where Mr. Twain and Mrs. Stowe Built Their Dream Houses

June 14, 2019 • Everyday Life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Literature, Mark Twain, Thomas Hooker, William Gillette

This bucolic oasis on Hartford’s western edge became home to great literary talents, social reformers, politicians, and other nationally-regarded luminaries of the mid-to-late 1800s.

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Title page of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Begins Serialization – Today in History: June 5

June 5, 2018 • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hide Featured Image, Literature

On June 5, 1851, the first chapter of what would…

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Suffragette Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, serving a 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for picketing July 4, 1917

19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut

August 18, 2017 • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Law, New London, Simsbury, Social Movements, Women

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all women who…

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Looking Back: Tempest Tossed, the Story of Isabella Beecher Hooker

March 5, 2017 • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hartford, Hide Featured Image, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Litchfield, Social Movements, Women

Isabella Beecher was a suffragist and spiritualist who shunned traditional female roles while alienating large parts of her famous family during her brother’s adultery scandal.

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The Most Famous American in the World

July 1, 2016 • Expansion and Reform, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Literature, Popular Culture, Social Movements, Women

In 1853, in cities and villages across Britain and Europe, throngs of admirers pushed and shoved to catch a glimpse of a barely 5-foot-tall writer from America whose best-selling novel had taken slavery to task.

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