William Howitt

MH and her husband witnessed first-hand the riots in Nottingham following the rejection of the Reform Bill, including the burning and looting of Nottingham Castle.

MH and her husband William Howitt published The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.

MH , on a walking holiday with her husband , passed close to Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, at the site of her novel Wood Leighton.

Shortly after her husband 's death, Mary Howitt was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature.

Inspired by stories of the cheapness of life in Germany, MH , her husband and five children moved to the Rhineland (an unfortunate, because expensive, choice); they lived two years at Heidelberg.

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. Bearing the expenses of a...

MH 's nearly sixty-year-old husband and their two sons sailed for Australia to look for new opportunities.

In Leicester she met William Howitt ; she later visited his family at Heanor in Derbyshire. His mother was a compounder of herbal medicines. William loved Walter Scott , the Romantic poets, and the...

A couple of years after William Howitt 's return from Australia, he and MH moved the short distance from The Hermitage to West Hill Lodge, still in Highgate, where they remained until 1866.

During the 1850s, following the death of their schoolboy son Claude, MH and her husband experimented with spiritualism. MH received on one occasion a spirit message from Claude.

MH and her husband moved from West Hill Lodge in Highgate to The Orchard in Claremont near Esher: that is, from the north to the south of London and further away from the city.

Early in her marriage, living in Nottingham, MH wrote both poetry and prose. Her early poem Wild Crocus in Nottingham Meadows treats a sight which she also, in February 1835, described lyrically in a letter...

MH , her husband , and their daughter Margaret left England with the intention of visiting Brussels, then Switzerland, then Italy.

Readers were often unable to distinguish between the two Howitts. Mary Russell Mitford , however, reading The Book of the Seasons (published under William 's name alone, in 1831, at both London and Philadelphia), rightly...

Having been held up in Zurich by war, MH , her husband , and their daughter Margaret finally reached Rome.