Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 281 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb
claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson
's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau
, although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold
responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press. 299 |
Occupation | Louisa Anne Meredith | While living on the east coast she had continued in her activities as a naturalist and became, through correspondence, acquainted with notable scientists in Europe and Australia. With them she discussed her collection of insects... |
Textual Production | Louisa Anne Meredith | Tilt and Bogue
produced a new edition in 1843. Meredith, Louisa Anne. Our Wild Flowers. Tilt and Bogue. |
Residence | Eliza Meteyard | On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt
from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies
(a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Meteyard | She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Harriet Martineau
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Meteyard | She belonged to the Whittington Club
, where Mary Howitt
urged her in November 1846 to speak to the company. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 123 |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Meteyard | 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. |
Literary responses | Eliza Meteyard | Mary Howitt
prophesied that EM
's piece on the Protection of Women would cause that little sneakJohn Saunders
(founder of the People's Journal, from whom the Howitts split when they launched Howitt's Journal... |
Publishing | Eliza Meteyard | It was her earnings from this book, said Mary Howitt
, that served to set up a younger brother in Australia. Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press. 188 |
Publishing | Eliza Meteyard | She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 181 |
Reception | Eliza Meteyard | It was granted by William Gladstone
at the instigation of Mary
and William Howitt
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
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, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 43-7. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 213 |
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