ABSTRACT
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher is the daughter of the Rev. Lyman Beecher D. D., and seems to have inherited much of the splendid talents of her father. She was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 15, 1812. She went to Cincinnati with her father's family in the autumn of 1832. Mrs. Stowe's writings are found principally in the various literary and religious periodicals of the country, and in a volume of tales, called The Mayflower, published in 1843. She has not written so much as some of the female authors, but what she has written has left a profound impression. The anti-slavery sentiment, obtruded by the author in her own person, is the greatest blemish of the book as a work of art. It is an undoubted proof of the extraordinary skill of the author in other respects, that she has been able so completely to fascinate millions of readers, to whom her anti-slavery opinions have been utterly offensive.
