Celebrating New England's Women

Harriet Beecher Stowe, born and bred in Connecticut, wrote her antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in Maine. Located in Brunswick, The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a National Historic Landmark and National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. Edith Wharton’s country home and design project, The Mount is nestled in the heart of The Berkshires in Massachusetts. The site is open to visitors, who can tour the house and gardens, learning more about the author, who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for The Age of Innocence.

Another writer from the region is Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.

The New Hampshire Women's Heritage Trail is a trail of history markers throughout the state honouring women who have made positive contributions such as Amy Cheney Beach, who was America’s first internationally celebrated female composer.