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Howells

American  
[hau-uhlz] / ˈhaʊ əlz /

noun

  1. William Dean, 1837–1920, U.S. author, critic, and editor.


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Scott Howells plays the role of Cai, who runs the website but denies posting the listing, describing the character as "charming, complicated and never quite what he seems".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It's a Sin actor Callum Scott Howells, who stars as Henry Paget in Madfabulous, previously said it was a "genuine honour" to portray the fifth Marquess of Anglesey.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Ludlow and Cornelia are the young lovers whom William Dean Howells brings together in a novel set amid the art schools, boardinghouses, drawing rooms and artists’ studios of late-19th-century New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

As Howells observes, “this is what no one can quite do.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In Wharton and Howells, on the other hand, there is frequently an edge of satire, and sometimes a hint of seismic rumble.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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