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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home and National Historic Landmark at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, notable as a short-term home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvin Ellis Stowe. Earlier, it had been the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a student. It is today owned by Bowdoin College. ==History== The home was built in 1806〔Hansen, Harry. ''Longfellow's New England''. New York: Hastings House, 1972: 28. ISBN 0-8038-4279-1〕 and was originally known as the Stonemore House. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his brother Stephen Longfellow temporarily rented rooms here while students at nearby Bowdoin College before moving into what is now the campus's Maine Hall by the fall of 1823.〔Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004: 33. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2〕 When Calvin Ellis Stowe was hired as a professor by Bowdoin College in 1850, he and his family rented this home. His wife Harriet Beecher Stowe was sent ahead to prepare the housekeeping while he completed teaching the fall 1850 semester at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati.〔Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 193. ISBN 0-19-506639-1〕 Mrs. Stowe, six months pregnant at the time, set out in April 1850 with the couple's three oldest children and her aunt Esther.〔 The family arrived in Brunswick on Wednesday, May 22, amid a storm. The house had already been partially prepared for them by the wife of Professor Thomas Cogswell Upham. As Mrs. Stowe wrote to her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe a week later, "Mrs. Upham has done everything for me, giving up time and strength and taking charge of my affairs in a way without which we could not have got along at all in a strange place and in my present helpless condition."〔McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 60. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7〕 She missed her husband, however, and wrote to him in November, "I am lonesome nights in this rattletrap house where every wind shakes out as many noises as there are ghosts in Hades—screeching snapping cracking groaning."〔Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 199. ISBN 0-19-506639-1〕 Meanwhile, her husband in Ohio was ill. As Mrs. Stowe reported to her sister, he claimed he was sick "& all but dead" and worried what would happen to his wife if she were left a widow. "I read the letter and poke it into the stove, and proceed", she wrote.〔Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 195. ISBN 0-19-506639-1〕 Their son Charley Stowe, the last of their children, was born in this house on July 8, 1850.〔 The birth came while she was writing but, as she recalled in a letter, she was "obliged to give previous attention to some other affairs—about noon the household were thrown into commotion by the arrival of a young stranger in these parts—said to be a great beauty—to have excellent lungs & to look just like his pa, three very important items in his collection."〔Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 196. ISBN 0-19-506639-1〕 Once settled in, Mrs. Stowe wrote for several magazines, including the ''New-York Evangelist'' and the ''National Era'' in Washington, D.C.〔McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 63. ISBN 978-0-8021-4390-7〕 Rent for the home, then owned by the Titcomb family, was $125, higher than expected, and Mrs. Stowe wrote to offset that expense.〔Hedrick, Joan D. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 194. ISBN 0-19-506639-1〕 It was here also that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her serialized novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''.〔(NPS NHL info )〕 The idea first came to her in a vision while sitting in pew 23 in nearby First Parish Church, where she saw the Uncle Tom character wounded from a beating he endured from his enslaver.〔Buchanan, Paul D. ''American Women's Rights Movement: A Chronology of Events and Opportunities, 1800–2008''. Boston: Branden Books, 2009: 51. ISBN 0-8283-2160-4〕 She is said to have read early drafts of the book's chapters to friends, including the college's future president Joshua Chamberlain and his soon-to-be wife Fanny Adams.〔Smith, Diane Monroe. ''Fanny and Joshua: The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain''. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1999: 19. ISBN 978-1577470465.〕 The Stowes stayed only two years in the home, but Mrs. Stowe later remarked those two years were the healthiest and happiest of her life.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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