Beecher Stowe
Britishnoun
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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
It’s worth recalling an earlier melodramatic thriller tarted up with flowery ornaments and freighted with earnest political relevance by a white woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe.
From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2020
Though Beecher came from a liberal family — he was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — he was opposed to free love.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2019
Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrna was still around to offend.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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