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Beecher Stowe

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noun

  1. See Stowe

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The six female additions include suffragist Susan B. Anthony and novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as Civil War nurses and a temperance crusader.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2023

Amongst the circle of friends she would meet, invite to her home and correspond with were Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Christabel Pankhurst, Beatrix Potter and Charles Dickens.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2022

These encounters with artists — Powell, Josephine Baker, Harriet Beecher Stowe and beyond — are ravishing and rigorous, but they are interrupted with fretting and self-admonishment.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Emily Dickinson read her with admiration, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne traveled to Italy just to meet her.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrna was still around to offend.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole