Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Anthologization | Anna Mary Howitt | Anna Mary Howitt (now Watts)
, as the author of An Art-Student in Munich, contributed Some Passages from the Child-life of Lucy Meridyth to an anthology compiled by her mother, Mary Howitt
: The... |
Anthologization | Mary Cowden Clarke | In 1848 MCC
may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt
and Anna Maria Hall
. But Richard D. Altick
believes the stories The Princess... |
Anthologization | Barbara Hofland | BH
seems to have remained saleable for a long time, since The Gift of Friendship . . . with contributions by . . . Mrs. Hofland appeared as late as 1877. Others included were Mary Howitt |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary
and William Howitt
's Visits to Remarkable Places. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 37 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. 637 (11 January 1840): 34-6 |
Birth | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was born, the first child of writers Mary
and William Howitt
to be delivered alive, though Mary had been four times pregnant since her marriage in 1821. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 95 |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith
, Christina Rossetti
, Elizabeth Siddal
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Anna Mary Howitt
, and Mary Howitt
conducted a series of seances at the Hermitage, the Howitt family home. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 97 |
Dedications | Anna Mary Howitt | She wrote a warmly affectionate dedication to her parents, William
and Mary Howitt
. A US edition appeared the following year; a second edition was dated 1880. The work has appeared in German as Herrliche... |
Education | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Mary Howitt
, a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
's mother, Mary Howitt
, became a well-known and much-loved writer in many genres, particularly for children. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
adopted her daughter, who had been abandoned, from a parish workhouse. Mary Howitt
wrote a feeling account of the first discovery of the baby lying on a builders' sand-heap at 5 a.m. on the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | Young Charlotte developed an adolescent crush on her headmistress, Lucy Harrison
, who was a niece of writer Mary Howitt
, a charismatic Quaker, and a scholar of English literature. Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, No. 1, pp. 43 - 7. 44 |
Fictionalization | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 281 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
met Mary Howitt
in Heidelberg and attended many society balls with her. They shared much in common and became close friends. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 143-4 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall
, Anna Maria Hall
, Dinah Mulock (later Craik)
, and Mary Howitt
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986. 19 |