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Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | MH
was received into the Roman Catholic Church
after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband
in the Protestant Cemetery. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 254 |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | The title of the series (used in the Bodleian
though not in the British Library
catalogue) was Tales for the People and their Children. Following the British Libary dating (since authorities differ) MC's own... |
Birth | Anna Mary Howitt | |
politics | Matilda Hays | Other key figures involved included Charles Dickens
, Giuseppe Mazzini
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Douglas Jerrold
. Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan. 141 |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary
and William Howitt
's Visits to Remarkable Places. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 37 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. 637 (11 January 1840): 34-6 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary
and William Howitt
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 219 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | She also liked to escape from Manchester when she was able to. She spent the evening of Christmas 1850 at William
and Mary Howitt
's home in London swapping ghost stories with them and Eliza Meteyard
. Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 32 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
gave the manuscript of Mary Barton to William Howitt
for his advice—he later claimed to have suggested the novel—and he in turn showed it to John Forster
, a reader for Chapman and Hall |
Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may... |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Literary responses | Robert Browning | This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB
and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett
, since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Publishing | Caroline Bowles | In January 1847, CB
's letter Mr. Howitt
's Homes and Haunts of the Poets appeared in the Athenæum. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 332 |
Friends, Associates | Hans Christian Andersen | HCA
dedicated his book A Poet's Day Dreams to Charles Dickens
, whom he visited in 1857. He also, while visiting England, stayed with William
and Mary Howitt
at The Elms, Lower Clapton. Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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