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.
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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.
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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.
EM
found the financial pressure to write intense; she complained in 1857 of a spider's web of work, which necessity of ways and means compels me to do.
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press.
In addition to maintaining herself, she assisted...
Travel
Margaret Fuller
In order to pay for this trip, MF
wrote a column titled Things and Thoughts in Europe. In this capacity she travelled through England, Scotland, France and Italy at a time when...
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
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...
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.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. Our Wild Flowers. Tilt and Bogue.
The title page sports an epigraph by Mary Howitt
, and the volume is illustrated with coloured plates from the author's original drawings.
Textual Production
Anna Mary Howitt
AMH
's first art commission was apparently the illustrations for her mother
's Hymns and Fireside Verses, executed in her early teens and published in 1839. After her death her mother's autobiography also appeared with her illustrations.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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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...
Textual Production
Adelaide Procter
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.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
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.
Textual Production
Sarah Josepha Hale
The original edition ran to just over nine hundred pages, and was illustrated with two hundred and thirty portrait wood engravings. SJH
dated her prefatory material at Philadelpha on 4 July 1851; a note added...
EH
anonymously contributed Mabel (a ghost story about a deaf girl) to an anthology, The Remembrance, edited by Thomas Roscoe
and dedicated to Queen Adelaide
.
8 May 1835: Hans Christian Andersen began publishing...
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8 May 1835
Hans Christian Andersen
began publishing fairy tales, some collected and some of his own devising, in his native Danish.
1839: Hemmet, one of Fredrika Bremer's best-known...
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1839
Hemmet, one of Fredrika Bremer
's best-known domesticnovels, appeared; it was translated into English in 1843 by Mary Howitt
as The Home, or Family Cares and Family Joys.
11 October 1845: A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's...
Building item
11 October 1845
A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg
's work The Principia was published in London; this form of spiritualism soon became popular in elite intellectual circles.
17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...
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17 February 1847
The Whittington Club
(named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.
December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...
Fredrika Bremer
's feminist novelHertha stressed the need for women's independence; it appeared in an English translation by Mary Howitt
the same year.
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
National or international item
14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
April 1862: The Senate of the University of London voted...
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April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
18 August 1882: The Married Women's Property Act gave women...
National or international item
18 August 1882
The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.
Texts
Howitt, Mary. A Popular History of the United States of America. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859.
Howitt, Mary. Ballads and Other Poems. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847.
Howitt, Mary, editor. Biographical Sketches of the Queens of Great Britain. Henry G. Bohn, 1851.
Howitt, Mary. Birds and Flowers, and other Country Things. Darton and Clark, 1838.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt, editors. Howitt’s Journal of Literature and Popular Progress. W. Lovett.
Howitt, Mary. “Howitt, Mary: Ballads (1847)”. University of Alberta: Individual Literature Collections (Chadwyck-Healey): English Poetry, Second Edition.
Howitt, Mary. “Howitt, Mary: Tales in Verse (1865)”. University of Alberta: Individual Literature Collections (Chadwyck-Healey): English Poetry, Second Edition, New Edition.
Howitt, Mary. Hymns and Fireside Verses. Darton and Clark, 1839.
Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron. Jacob Bendixen. Translator Howitt, Mary, Colburn, 1852.
Howitt, Mary. Marion’s Pilgrimage, A Fire-side Story, and Other Poems. Darton, 1859.
Howitt, Mary. Mary Howitt’s Illustrated Library for the Young. W. Kent, 1856.
Howitt, Mary. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. Editor Howitt, Margaret, W. Isbister, 1889.
Howitt, Mary. My Own Story; or, The Autobiography of a Child. Thomas Tegg, 1845.
Andersen, Hans Christian. Only a Fiddler!. Translator Howitt, Mary, R. Bentley, 1845.
Howitt, Mary. Our Cousins in Ohio. Barton, 1849.
Howitt, Mary. Sketches of Natural History. E. Smith, 1834.
Howitt, Anna Mary et al. “Some Passages from the Child-life of Lucy Meridyth”. The Golden Casket, edited by Mary Howitt, James Hogg and Sons, 1861.
Howitt, Mary. Tales in Verse. William Darton and Son, 1836.
Howitt, Mary, and John Absolon. The Children’s Year. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847.
Howitt, Mary. The Cost of Caergwyn. 1864.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Desolation of Eyam. Wightman and Cramp, 1827.
Howitt, Mary. The Dial of Love. Darton, 1853.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823.
Howitt, Mary. The Heir of Wast-Wayland. T. Hodgson, 1847.
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Improvisatore. Translator Howitt, Mary, R. Bentley, Moyes and Barclay, 1845.