Stowe

(stəʊ)

(Named Buildings) 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

Stowe

(stəʊ)

(Biography) Harriet Elizabeth Beecher. 1811–96, US writer, whose bestselling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) contributed to the antislavery cause

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Stowe

(stoʊ)

n.

Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.

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Stowe - United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

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Stowe's romance; I kept on at my imitation of Pope's pastorals, which I dare say I thought much finer, and worthier the powers of such a poet as I meant to be.

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I have some curious books in both languages; such as Erasmi Colloquia, Ovid de Tristibus, Gradus ad Parnassum; and in English I have several of the best books, though some of them are a little torn; but I have a great part of Stowe's Chronicle; the sixth volume of Pope's Homer; the third volume of the Spectator; the second volume of Echard's Roman History; the Craftsman; Robinson Crusoe; Thomas a Kempis; and two volumes of Tom Brown's Works."

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I tell you Harriet Beecher Stowe herself couldn't 'a' done it better justice."

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The third incident in a matter of days happened when Michael Hirsch died at Stowe Pool.

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Seeing Stowe's book through Polish eyes uncovered more of its disturbing elements.

UNLETOM IN POLAND

"I spent the last three quarters of a year gaining an understanding of what Stowe and Jane have envisioned for the village," Bayless said.

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Madeleine Stowe may be known to keep a low profile in Hollywood, but she's been making steady moves into the world of TV over the past decade.

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Stowe has headed the North American Business Unit of Prudential plc, which includes Jackson and its affiliates, since 2015.

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Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe focusses its investment activity in two target industries: technology and healthcare.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson/Stowe Partners with Former OHL CEO to Acquire 3rd Party Logistics Companies

Stowe is 250 acres of parkland offering a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas.

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New Ways Ministry director Frank DeBernardo invited Stowe, 51, after he'd heard the bishop give scriptural reflections at the 2016 annual meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

Bishop Stowe leads prayer at LGBT Catholic event