Calvin Stowe

Harriet Beecher and Calvin Stowe , a widower, were quietly married.

HBS , who had become pregnant before her husband 's departure for Europe, gave birth to her first children, twin daughters.

ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...

Harriet and her sister Catharine joined the Semi-Colon Club , an informal literary society. Other members included new novelist Caroline Lee Hentz ; James Hall , editor of the Western Monthly Magazine; a professor...