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Stowe

American  
[stoh] / stoʊ /

noun

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

  2. a town in N Vermont: ski resort.


Stowe 1 British  
/ stəʊ /

noun

  1. 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

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Stowe 2 British  
/ stəʊ /

noun

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

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He praised John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” for its descriptions of capitalist exploitation and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for the light it shed on slavery in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

In installments, its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, poured forth the tragic tale of the life of Uncle Tom, a fictional, enslaved Black man.

From Literature

The works she focused on included Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Saul Bellow’s “Henderson the Rain King” with an eye toward the depictions of black characters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” first published as a serial in the National Era newspaper starting in 1851, became a challenge to all Americans to stand against slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal