Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
1, 261
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.
1, 134-5
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.
Mitford sought to secure a review from either Mary
or William Howitt
, but Mary replied that reviews had already appeared in the journals they had links with. Another friend, Barbara Hofland
, reviewed it...
Textual Production
Georgina Munro
GM
published in The People's Journal (later The People's and Howitt's Journal) over the whole of its run; her sixteen contributions are mainly short stories.
The People's Journal began in 1846 and Howitt
's...
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Margaret Oliphant
MO
kept writing through the difficult years of her married life, through poverty, her husband's illness and her children's deaths, although fellow-writer Mary Howitt
tried to frighten her with the story that too much mental...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Rigby
The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Martha Sherwood
, and Mary Howitt
.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
46
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 726
.
Friends, Associates
Christina Rossetti
Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina...
Publishing
Christina Rossetti
In the four months following the end of her engagement to James Collinson
no new poems were entered in her notebook, but the broken engagement was not necessarily the cause, since there are several other...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
When Reeve
later retold the Charoba story in The Progress of Romance, 1785, it was as a specimen of the genre, with implicit reference to some of Rowe's critical points. William Howitt
(born in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic...
AS
was a romantic or imaginative supporter of the Cavaliers and Jacobites of the past, but in practical terms she was a conservative. When Mary Howitt
asked her to support a petition to parliament about...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Trollopes' collaborative work, whose title was influenced by William
and Mary Howitt
's Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, is a collection of previously written articles, all concerning Italian literary...
