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William Howitt
Standard Name: Howitt, William
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband
published jointly, with their initials, The Desolation of Eyam; The Emigrant, A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Poems. |
| Residence | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband
moved to Lower Parliament Street in Nottingham. They lived in Nottingham (later in a larger house in Market Place) until spring 1836. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 90, 131, 133 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: 172 |
| Dedications | Mary Howitt | MH
's popular Ballads and Other Poems were out (dated 1847), dedicated to William Howitt
as my Best Counseller and Teacher; my Literary Associate for a Quarter of a Century, my Husband, and my Friend... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband
set out for London, where they were introduced into literary circles. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 25, 224 |
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | William
and MH
edited under both of their names three numbers of the ambitious Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, founded to publish both eminent and upcoming writers and to tackle burning social... |
| politics | Mary 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 120-1 |
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband William Howitt
published The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 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. |
| Travel | Mary Howitt | MH
, on a walking holiday with her husband
, passed close to Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, at the site of her novel Wood Leighton. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 315-16 Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 134 Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research. 110: 147 |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | 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. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
| Residence | Mary Howitt | 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 142-3, 145 |
| Author summary | Mary Howitt | 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | MH
's nearly sixty-year-old husband
and their two sons sailed for Australia to look for new opportunities. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 217-18 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | 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... |
| Residence | Mary Howitt | 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 225 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 148, 210-11 This was the decade when... |
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