Mary Howitt

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Standard Name: Howitt, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Botham
Married Name: Mary Howitt
Pseudonym: Wilfreda
Between them, Mary Howitt and her husband William wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum printed catalogue.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Bearing the expenses of a large family, they needed to harness their literary productivity to earning potential.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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As an opportunistic writer in several low-status, low-cost genres, accustomed to placing the same work in several successive venues, MH left a complex, even confusing bibliography, not yet reduced to order by scholars.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of the aged Mary Howitt. She is dressed in black: a dark hood covers her grey hair and white cap; her black, patterned cloak, tied with dark ribbons, covers a dark dress buttoned in front. Her eyes are cast down.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
Mary Howitt wrote indignantly this year (early in which her translation of The Neighbours had already appeared) of working against the clock to try to circumvent the competing, cheaper, pirated English version put out by...
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
These two books appeared in English the same year, Brothers and Sisters (which had been delayed, FB said, by her laziness), before 10 June. Bremer had changed her publishing arrangements: a different Swedish publisher undertook...
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
FB had set out on her American travels with some idea that in that continent of realism she would abandon the novel for other forms of writing. But early in her explorations, she decided to...
Literary responses Fredrika Bremer
On first sight of Mary Howitt's translation, FB sent her a letter of thanks and praise. Then, however, she discovered some personal comments remaining in the English version (including an apparently derogatory remark about someone...
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
Travels in the Holy Land was available in Britain at New Year 1862, and Greece and the Greeks: being the Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and its Islands, in...
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
The first volume made up of collected numbers of The People's Journal launched in London on 1 July 1846, with a long advertisement insisting that people was used in the sense of nation, not class...
Textual Production Fredrika Bremer
FB published her novel Grannarne, which was translated into English by Mary Howitt as The Neighbours: A Story of Every Day Life, which appeared by November 1842.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
Asmundsson, Doris R. Fredrika Bremer in England. Columbia University, 1964.
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Textual Production Fredrika Bremer
FB published a novel entitled En dagbok, whose composition she had interrupted for her theological work. An anonymous English translation, first printed in the USA, joined several of her other titles in Smith's Standard...
Textual Production Fredrika Bremer
FB published her most famous novel, the feminist bildungsroman Hertha, eller En själs historia [the history of a soul], which Mary Howitt translated into English as Hertha the same year.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
“NEW NOVEL, by the Author of ‘Alice Wentworth.’-Just ready, in”. The Times, No. 22395, 16 June 1856, p. 13, https://link-gale-com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/apps/doc/CS218271440/TTDA?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=d657e63b.
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Textual Production Fredrika Bremer
FB set her drama about rebellion and reconciliation, Trälinnan, in pre-Christian, Viking Scandinavia. An English version by Mary Lowell Putnam was published before May 1844, and another by Mary Howitt followed, both titled...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Byron and Wordsworth were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey 's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L.
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...
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...
Literary responses Eliza Cook
An 1848 preface to a US edition of her poems ranked EC 's popularity almost as high as that of Felicia Hemans or Caroline Norton . It characterises her work in terms of emotion and...
Textual Production Isa Craig
This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Mary Howitt , as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina 's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel 's Sudden Light. The...

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Texts

Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852, 2 vols.
Bremer, Fredrika. The Neighbours. Translator Howitt, Mary, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, 2 vols.
Bremer, Fredrika. The President’s Daughters. Translator Howitt, Mary, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, 3 vols.
Howitt, Mary. The Seven Temptations. R. Bentley, 1834.
Andersen, Hans Christian. Wonderful Stories for Children. Translator Howitt, Mary, Chapman and Hall, 1846.
Howitt, Mary. Wood Leighton. R. Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.