Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Howells” in chapter 17 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

...he curious fate of bringing great disappointment to most of his friends and admirers, and yet of being praised by the two among his contemporaries personally most successful in fiction, Hawthorne and Howells . Now that the New England village life has proved such rich material in the hands of Mary Wilkins, Sarah Jewett, and Rowland Robinson, it is difficult to revert to Kavanagh (1849) without feeling t...
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W. D. Howells 106 2 0 0 0 user votes
William Dean Howells 225 0 1 0 0 user votes
Howells 62 0 20 0 0 user votes
Tolstoy Howells 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
William D. Howells 16 5 2 1 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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