Harriet was the daugh­ter of Con­gre­ga­tio­nal min­is­ter Ly­man Beech­er. Her mo­ther died when she was four years old. At age 13, she be­gan at­tend­ing a girl’s 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, 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.

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Hymns

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