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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Stowe Center for Literary Activism
77 Forest Street
Hartford, CT 06105

860-522-9258
info@stowecenter.org

Open Today:
12:00 - 5:00 PM
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Monday Closed Tuesday Closed Wednesday 12:00 - 5:00 PM Thursday 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Friday CLOSED FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY Saturday 12:00 - 5:00 PM Sunday Closed
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  • Richard Frieder Senior Associate, Everyday Democracy
  • Justin Liberman Program Director, Cinema Program, University of Hartford
  • Taylor Kahn-Perry Student, Georgetown University
  • Matthew Carrier Student, CREC Metropolitan Learning Center
  • Priyanka Kumar Student, The Hotchkiss School
  • Jessica Locke Student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Kiana Quinonez Student, University of New Haven
  • John Humphries Governor's Council on Climate Change
  • Ellen Boynton Office of Multicultural Healthcare Equity, DMHAS
  • Andrew Clark Director, Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy
  • Mike Lawlor Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of New Haven
  • Troy Brown State of CT Judicial Branch
  • Stacey Queen Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • Rev. Al Johnson Christian Activities Council
  • Cori Mackey Christian Activities Council
  • Maria Cristina Cuerda CT Fair Housing Center
  • Kennard Ray Full Citizen Coalition to Unlock the Vote
  • Manuela Wagner University of Connecticut
  • Iran Nazario Connecticut Peace Center
  • Arthur Miller Archdiocese of Hartford
  • Donna Berman Charter Oak Cultural Center
  • Bilal Sekou University of Hartford
  • Brendan Kane University of Connecticut
  • Amy Bass Author
  • Versatile Poetiq Spoken word artist
  • Roshae Harrison Student, Hartford High School
  • Vjosa Qerimi V.P. Common Ground Institute and Services
  • Imam Sami Aziz Muslim Chaplin, Wesleyan University
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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes 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.