STOWE PRIZE CELEBRATION The Mark Twain House & Museum and Immanuel Congregational Church
The Stowe Center for Literary Activism is delighted to announce Professor Percival Everett as the 2025 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner for his book James: A Novel (Doubleday, 2024).
Event Schedule 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Sponsor Reception with Professor Percival Everett | The Mark Twain House & Museum 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Free Social Justice Fair | Fellowship Hall, Immanuel Congregational Church 6:30 – 8:00 pm | Public Program | The Sanctuary, Immanuel Congregational Church
2025 Stowe Prize Registration
The Stowe Prize for Literary Activism will be awarded to Percival Everett at a public ceremony in Hartford on September 17, 2025. More details to follow. Please contact Casey Grambo, Director of Development, at CGrambo@StoweCenter.org or 860-522-9258 ext. 320, if you’d like to be a sponsor.
INTRODUCING THE STOWE PRIZE EVENT SERIES
We are delighted to share that the work of Mr. Everett, and all our Stowe Prize winners, will now be a part of the work we do all year round. In September 2024, the Stowe Center launched a new Stowe Prize event series that explores the topic of the selected book from September of that year until the following Stowe Prize celebration. Supporters of the 2025 Stowe Prize will be recognized as sponsors of that series in addition to the reception and public program.
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
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Isabella Beecher Hooker
IsabellaHolmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.
Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.
In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.
In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.
December 2, 2019
Due to inclement weather, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is closed today, Monday, December 2.
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