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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 173 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRYSee also:SETON (d. 1903), the See also:pen-name of See also:Hugh See also:Stowell See also:Scott, See also:English novelist. He was a member of the See also:firm of Henry Scott & Sons, and was for some years an See also:underwriter at See also:Lloyd's. His See also:literary career began in 1889 with The Phantom Future, and he made his first decided See also:hit with his See also:Russian See also:story, The Sowers (1896), which was followed by many other well-constructed novels remarkable for excellence of See also:plot and literary handling. The author was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend See also:Stanley See also:Weyman. He was about See also:forty when he died at Melton, near See also:Ipswich, on the 19th of See also:November 1903. Among his most successful books were Roden's Corner (1898); The Isle of Unrest (1899); In Kedar's Tents (1897); The See also:Velvet See also:Glove (1901); The Vultures (1902); Barlasch of the Guard (19o3); and The Last See also:Hope (1904).

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