Brunswick in Cumberland County, Maine — The American Northeast (New England)
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, October 14, 2024
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House Marker
Built in 1806, this house was occupied by Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. It was here that Stowe harbored fugitive slave John Andrew Jackson in late 1850. Stowe would go on to write her first novel, Uncle Toms Cabin, before leaving Brunswick for Andover Massachusetts.
Erected by Bowdoin College.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Abolition & Underground RR • Arts, Letters, Music • War, US Civil • Women.
Location. 43° 54.778′ N, 69° 57.667′ W. Marker is in Brunswick, Maine, in Cumberland County. It is at the intersection of Federal Street and Maple Street, on the right when traveling north on Federal Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 63 Federal Street, Brunswick ME 04011, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Portland. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere.
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Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 10, 2017
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe House Marker
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 10, 2017
3. Marker in Brunswick
Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 10, 2017
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, August 9, 2015
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe
This 1853 portrait by Alanson Fisher hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
“Excluded from public professions, cultivated women sought other avenues for their talents. From discussing the issues of the day in informal salon gatherings, it was a short step for women to become writers, especially since the antebellum period saw a burgeoning number of magazines catering to women. So Harriet Beecher Stowe started a career that made her one of the most popular novelists of the nineteenth century. Stowe's place in American history was sealed with her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52), which sold 300,000 copies in its first year. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a reform novel; Stowe was motivated to write it by the Fugitive Slave Law and the effect that slavery had in destroying the African American family. No more effective charge could be made in a nation that, both North and South, revered the family as the foundation of society.” -- National Portrait Gallery
“Excluded from public professions, cultivated women sought other avenues for their talents. From discussing the issues of the day in informal salon gatherings, it was a short step for women to become writers, especially since the antebellum period saw a burgeoning number of magazines catering to women. So Harriet Beecher Stowe started a career that made her one of the most popular novelists of the nineteenth century. Stowe's place in American history was sealed with her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-52), which sold 300,000 copies in its first year. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a reform novel; Stowe was motivated to write it by the Fugitive Slave Law and the effect that slavery had in destroying the African American family. No more effective charge could be made in a nation that, both North and South, revered the family as the foundation of society.” -- National Portrait Gallery
Internet Archive
6. House where “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was written
from The Biographical Dictionary of America, 1906, by Rossiter Johnson.
Credits. This page was last revised on October 25, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 10, 2017, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 952 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on October 19, 2024, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 10, 2017, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 5, 6. submitted on July 3, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
