1811-1896

Harriet was the daughter of Congregational minister Lyman Beecher, and Roxanna Foote. Her mother died when she was four years old. At age 13, she began attending a girls’ school in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1832, her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father became head of the Lane Theological Seminary. Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor there, in 1836. She became a professor herself at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1850.

Stowe wrote dozens of books, including the well known Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Most of her hymns appeared in the Plymouth Collection, published in 1855 by her brother, Henry Ward Beecher.

• Bailey, pp. 496-98
• Findagrave, accessed 15 Feb 2018
• Julian, p. 1096

1. Abide in Me, O Lord
2. Knocking, Knocking, Who Is There?
3. Still, Still with Thee
4. That Mystic Work of Thine
5. When Winds Are Raging