William Howitt

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

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...

In January 1847, CB 's letter Mr. Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Poets appeared in the Athenæum.

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...

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...

EG first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary and William Howitt 's Visits to Remarkable Places.

One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary and William Howitt .

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 .

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

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...

Other key figures involved included Charles Dickens , Giuseppe Mazzini , Mary and William Howitt , and Douglas Jerrold . Scholar Kathryn Gleadle calls this radical unitarian club a unique, feminist experiment in adult...

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.

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...

MH and her husband set out for London, where they were introduced into literary circles.

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...