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.
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:...
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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
.
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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
.
She included her own work, along with that of Gore
, Mitford
, Howitt
, Mrs Fraser
, and Catherine Crowe
. Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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Matilda Hays
In 1847, while still in her twenties, MH
was led by her desire to improve the lot of women to found a periodical. In the words of her later application for a Civil List
pension:...
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L. E. L.
She handed on the latter post to Mary Howitt
at her marriage. She had been contributing to such lavish annual publications since she wrote for the Forget-Me-Not in 1823, and her name became closely associated...
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Mary Russell Mitford
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...
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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...
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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/.
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
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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...
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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.
