* Nathaniel Parker Willis, was an American author and editor who is associated with notable American writers including Harriet Ann Jacobs and Edgar Allan Poe.

It was also the birthplace of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman who escaped and fled to the North where she became a writer and abolitionist, writing an autobiography entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

In 1861, Child helped Harriet Ann Jacobs with her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Harriet Ann Jacobs ( February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897 ) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.

Reward notice issued for the return of Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813 and had a brother John S. Jacobs.

Three months before she died, Jacobs ' mistress had signed a will leaving her slaves to her mother, but Dr. James Norcom and a man named Henry Flury witnessed a later codicil to the will directing that Harriet be left to Norcom's daughter, Mary Matilda.

Following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, both John Jacobs and Harriet Jacobs feared for each other ’ s safety.

To avert the risk of Jacobs being kidnapped, Cornelia Grinnell Willis ( Willis ' second wife ) took Harriet and the Willis baby to a friend ’ s house where they hid.

Without Jacobs ' knowledge, Cornelia Willis paid $ 300 to Messmore for the rights to Harriet and gave Jacobs her freedom.

She also suggested that Jacobs contact the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was working on A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Boston publishing house Phillips and Samson agreed to print the work in book form, if Jacobs could convince Willis or Harriet Beecher Stowe to provide a preface.

At this time, Harriet Jacobs and her editor, Lydia Marie Child, were trying to sell Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

In May 1861, John S. Jacobs, Harriet ’ s younger brother, was in London to publish a condensed version of her narrative called A True Tale of Slavery.

This book tells Harriet Jacobs ' story quite accurately ; however, it leaves out any mention of sexual harassment by her owner.

In 1865 Lydia Maria Child presented pages of Harriet Jacobs ' narrative in The Freedmen ’ s Book.

It noted that African Americans were happy with the efforts of Harriet Jacobs.

On March 8, 1866 Harriet Jacobs wrote to Lydia Maria Child noting that former slaves were getting low offers for wages at their new jobs.

She starts off saying how Harriet Jacobs was in Savannah with her daughter where much help was needed with the great amount of newly freed slaves.

In November 1866, Harriet Jacobs received news that her son, Joseph, was sick in Australia and needed money for the trip home.

Grave of Harriet Jacobs at Mount Auburn Cemetery

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

* Harriet Jacobs ( 1813 – 1897 ), escaped slave and author of .. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ..

Shelley also named his eldest daughter with Harriet Westbrook, Eliza Ianthe ( born June 23, 1813 ).

* Reverend Lord Charles Thynne ( 1813 – 1894 ), married Harriet Bagot and had issue, including a daughter who married the 4th Earl of Kenmare.

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1945 – Harriet Miers, American lawyer, 31st White House Counsel

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist ( d. 1967 )

* 1878 – Harriet Bosse, Swedish – Norwegian actress ( d. 1961 )

* Harriet Vane – protagonist, a mystery writer

She also had a half-brother, Robert ( 1802 – 64 ), and half-sister, Fanny ( 1805 – 82 ), from her father's previous marriage to Harriet Poynton (? 1780 – 1809 ).

* 1963 – Harriet Wheeler, English singer ( The Sundays )

* 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English theorist and writer ( d. 1876 )

* 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

* 1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress ( d. 1994 )

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

* 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American aviatrix ( d. 1912 )

* Harriet ( 1797 – 1844 )

* 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher ( d. 1858 )

* A translation of the letters of Gerbert ( 982 – 987 ) with introduction and notes, Harriet Pratt Lattin, tr., Columbus, OH, H. L. Hedrick, 1932.

* 1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English activist ( d. 1961 )

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.

* July 1 – Harriet Quimby, American aviator ( b. 1875 )

* March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist ( b. 1820 )

* October 14 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist ( b. 1876 )