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Heroes and Heroines: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet

Name origin: French

Name meaning: Ruler of the household; feminine variation of Harry

 
Beecher

Name origin: Old English

Name meaning: Dweller by the beech tree

 
Stowe

Name origin: English

Name meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Suffolk, so called from Old English stōw, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place’, frequently referring to a holy place or church. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.

 
 
 
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