William Howitt

Standard Name: Howitt, William

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Trollopes' collaborative work, whose title was influenced by William and Mary Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, is a collection of previously written articles, all concerning Italian literary...
Literary responses Elizabeth Singer Rowe
When Reeve later retold the Charoba story in The Progress of Romance, 1785, it was as a specimen of the genre, with implicit reference to some of Rowe's critical points. William Howitt (born in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Paston
The subjects of the first collection include Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) , Mary Howitt and her husband , and Lady Hester Stanhope .
Textual Production 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...
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
Jane Porter , Amelia Opie (that warm-hearted person),
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
Textual Production 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...
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.
The difficulties of social life for unattached women are visible in her regret and anxiety over...
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
Mary and William Howitt helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...
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.
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...
Friends, Associates Jessie White Mario
In old age JWM was attentive to William Howitt in his last illness. Margaret , younger daughter of William and Mary Howitt , duly visited her in return. Margaret gave her relations a vivid account...
Travel Mary Howitt
MH , her husband , and their daughter Margaret left England with the intention of visiting Brussels, then Switzerland, then Italy.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
245-6
Literary responses Mary Howitt
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...
Residence Mary Howitt
Having been held up in Zurich by war, MH , her husband , and their daughter Margaret finally reached Rome.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
246-7

Timeline

17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...

Building item

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.

Texts

Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt, editors. Howitt’s Journal of Literature and Popular Progress. W. Lovett.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Desolation of Eyam. Wightman and Cramp, 1827.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852.