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Harriet Beecher Stowe, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on 14 June 1811, married Calvin Ellis Stowe in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 6 January 1836, wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Brunswick, Maine, in 1851, and resided in this house from 1837 until her death on 1 July 1896. William Lyon Phelps wrote, "As Columbus sought an old continent and discovered a new one so Harriet Beecher Stowe meant to write an argument on an old theme and succeeded in writing an immortal classic."
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