Harriet Beecher Stowe as a young woman

A few weeks ago I posted a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe as a young woman because I was so startled to see her as something other than a mature or elderly woman.  It's the same with Harriet Beecher Stowe.

This daguerreotype is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated "1850s," which would make Ms. Stowe about 40 years of age (looks younger to me...)

Just a reminder (to me) that everyone was young once.

Via Turn of the Century.