The Semi-Colon Club
Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe was influenced by her time in the Semi-Colon Club, which helped shape her anti-slavery novelUncle Tom’s Cabin. The literary club was one of the only of its time to offer a space for men and women alike—a time when female writers were still using male pseudonyms so they could publish their works and were restricted from speaking in public to groups that included men. Members of the pioneering Cincinnati group included writers, a judge (future Supreme Court Justice Salmon P. Chase), physicians (including first American female physician, Elizabeth Blackwell), and Harriet’s sister, Catherine Beecher (an early women’s education advocate).
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