Stowe
Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
a town in N Vermont: ski resort.
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How to use Stowe in a sentence
In Mrs. Stowes early inimitable style of New England scene and character.
Dust | Julian HawthorneMrs. Stowes sympathy seemed ever to have followed her with a watchful care.
The Black Swan at Home and Abroad | AnonymousThe Stowes were then in England on their triumphant tour, and this made the attempt at deception an easy one.
Yesterdays with Authors | James T. FieldsWe cannot refrain from quoting Mrs. Stowes description of the concert, after dinner at the Stafford house.
The Black Swan at Home and Abroad | AnonymousTo the later editions of the work was added an account of a cat which had been presented to the author by the Stowes.
The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner | Charles Dudley Warner
British Dictionary definitions for Stowe (1 of 2)
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a mansion near Buckingham in N Buckinghamshire: built and decorated in the 17th and 18th centuries by Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Grinling Gibbons, and William Kent; formerly the seat of the Dukes of Buckingham; fine landscaped gardens: now occupied by a public school
British Dictionary definitions for Stowe (2 of 2)
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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. 1811–96, US writer, whose bestselling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) contributed to the antislavery cause
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