I whanau a Harriet Elizabeth Beecher i Litchfield, Connecticut, i te Pipiri 14, 1841. Ko ia te tuawhitu o nga tamariki 13 i whanau ki te kaikauwhau Calvinist a Lyman Beecher. Ko tona whaea tana wahine tuatahi, ko Roxana (Foote), he wahine whakapono nui i mate i te wa e rima noa nga tau o Stowe. Ko te tupuna whaea o Roxana ko General Andrew Ward o te Revolutionary War. Ko ona tuakana rongonui ko te tuahine, ko Catharine Beecher, i noho hei kaiwhakaako me te kaituhi, me nga tuakana i riro hei minita: tae atu ki a Henry Ward Beecher, i noho hei kaikauwhau rongonui me te kaitiaki, Charles Beecher, me Edward Beecher. I uru a Harriet Beecher ki te Hartford Female Seminary i whakahaerehia e tana tuahine Catharine Stowe. I reira i whiwhi ia i te maatauranga maatauranga tuku iho, i whakaritea mo nga tane anake i te wa o te whakaeke i te taone nui o Cincinnati i te tau 1831, ko tana papa i kaha ki te whakaeke i nga kaipuke, i whakaeke ano i
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