Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
Harriet Beecher Stowe Was Always a Writer
Clip: Season 6 Episode 35 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Harriet Beecher Stowe found her passion for writing early and never stopped.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's love of writing began in childhood. Her portrayer explains how Stowe used the hours others spent sleeping to write, and how she discovered as a teenager that religious magazines would pay for her work, helping turn a lifelong passion into a career.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
Harriet Beecher Stowe Was Always a Writer
Clip: Season 6 Episode 35 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Harriet Beecher Stowe's love of writing began in childhood. Her portrayer explains how Stowe used the hours others spent sleeping to write, and how she discovered as a teenager that religious magazines would pay for her work, helping turn a lifelong passion into a career.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Well, I feel that Harriet was such a brilliant woman, and she did, she was a great cook, she was a great wife.
She enjoyed traveling, and, but most of all, she loved writing.
When she was a little girl, she discovered she needed only six hours of sleep.
And the other two, 'cause everyone was supposed to sleep for eight hours in their house.
- [Christine] Mkay.
- The other two hours she would write.
So she wrote from when she was a little girl, and she began to discover in her teens that she would get paid for writing.
So she definitely kept writing.
- So she got paid by newspapers or magazines?
- By religious magazines.
- Okay.
All right.
- Yeah, about her faith.
- All right.
Well that's interesting.
Something that we didn't know.
- I know.
Bringing Harriet Beecher Stowe to Life
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Clip: S6 Ep35 | 1m 13s | A performer shares why portraying Harriet Beecher Stowe has become a personal mission. (1m 13s)
The Literary Circle Around Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Clip: S6 Ep35 | 1m 5s | Stowe's friendships connected her with leading writers and fellow abolitionists. (1m 5s)
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