Without these bountiful sources of information and these privileges so graciously allowed, a book of this kind could, of course, not have been written. Where-ever possible the language of Mrs. Stowe herself has been quoted or adapted from the rich treasury of her correspondence and autobiographical writings, or from stories of her own. Among these the “Lyman Beecher Autobiography” fixes forever a composite portrait of the Beecher family and is an almost inexhaustible storehouse of material. Among Mrs. Stowe’s books, the childhood experiences of _Tina_ in “Oldtown Folks” and of _Dolly_ in “Poganuc People” have been a veritable panorama of the young life of Harriet herself. Indeed, so largely do her books reflect not only her ideas and emotions but even the objective incidents of her life, that many of them are almost autobiographic in their character. CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE OF MRS. STOWE’S LIFE 1811, June 14. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. 1816. Death of her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher. 1816-1818. Harriet attends Dame School. 1817. Arrival of Harriet’s stepmother, Harriet Porter Beecher. 1823. Harriet’s essay on Immortality read at school exhibition. 1816, 1822, 1825, 1826, 1827. Visits to Foote homestead at Nut Plains, near Guilford, Connecticut. 1824-1832. Harriet as pupil and afterwards as teacher at her sister Catherine’s school in Hartford. 1825. Harriet writes a drama in blank verse called “Cleon.” 1825. Harriet becomes a member of the First Church in Hartford. 1826-1832. Pastorate of Dr. Beecher at Hanover Street Church in Boston. Harriet’s vacations at Boston and Guilford. 1832-1852. Dr. Beecher head of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio. Residence of family at Walnut Hills, suburb of Cincinnati. 1832-1834. Catherine and Harriet found a school at Cincinnati. 1833. Harriet a member of the Semi-colon Club. 1834. Harriet receives a prize for her first short story. 1833. Harriet visits a plantation in Kentucky and sees slave life. 1836, January. Marriage of Professor C. E. Stowe and Harriet Beecher. 1836, September. Birth of Mrs. Stowe’s twin daughters, Harriet Beecher and Eliza Tyler. 1838, January. Birth of her third child, Henry Ellis. 1840, May. Birth of her fourth child, Frederick William. 1843. Death of her brother, George, by accidental shooting. 1836-1850. Years of sickness, poverty and struggle. 1843, July. Birth of her fifth child, Georgiana May. 1843. Publication of her first book of stories. 1846-1847. Resort to a sanatorium in Vermont for her health. 1848, January. Birth of her sixth child, Samuel Charles. 1849. Cholera epidemic in Cincinnati; death of her youngest child. 1850-1852. Residence of the Stowe family in Brunswick, Maine. Professor Stowe at Bowdoin College.