Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Howells” in chapter 31 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men:

...tence. Moreover, it has announced that she, and she only, is the founder of that realistic school which is construed to include authors so remote from each other as the French Zola and the American Howells . The most decorous of maiden ladies is thus made to originate the extreme of indecorum; and the good loyal English-woman, devoted to Church and King, is made sponsor for the most democratic recogni...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Howells 62 18 20 4 0 user votes
William Dean Howells 225 0 1 0 0 user votes
W. D. Howells 106 0 0 0 0 user votes
Tolstoy Howells 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
William D. Howells 16 0 2 0 0 user votes
J. A. Howells 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. C. Howells 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. Howells 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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