Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Mary Howitt
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Standard Name: Howitt, Anna Mary
Birth Name: Anna Mary Howitt
Nickname: Annie
Married Name: Anna Mary Watts
Pseudonym: A. M.
Pseudonym: A. M. H. W.
Anna Mary Howitt
was connected on the one hand with the social and publishing circles of her parents, the hard-working pillars of the London literary establishment, and on the other hand with a group of forward-looking, feminist women of her own age. She was most productive, both as writer and painter, during the 1850s. Her pictures included delicate landscapes and ambitious history paintings. Her written output runs the gamut through journalism, translation, letters, poetry, a travel book, children's stories, and memoirs.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Occupation
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith
(later BLSB
) and Anna Mary Howitt
were engrossed in painting and poetry.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
96
Friends, Associates
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Of her diverse network of friends, BLSB
wrote to an aunt in 1857, I am one of the cracked people of the world, and I like to herd with the cracked such as A.M.H. [...
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
58, 71
politics
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee
confirmed the text of BLSB
's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition...
Cultural formation
Camilla Crosland
In 1854 CC
began practising spiritualism, as her husband too did later. The couple, together with their medium, hosted a number of séances. In her autobiography CC
recalls that Anna Mary Howitt
was a very...
MH
's first child to be delivered alive, her daughter Anna Mary
, was born on 15 January 1824. She grew up to become a writer and artist.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Howitt
Their eldest daughter Anna Mary
frequently visited her parents after they settled abroad. She was at her father's deathbed.
Publishing
Mary Howitt
Children's publisher Darton and Co.
issued Mary Howitt
's Tales in Verse for the Young. The Little Mariner, and Other Poems in 1850, in a volume that includes Madam Fortescue and her Cat (with three...
Publishing
Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt
: An Autobiography appeared posthumously, edited by Howitt's younger (and only surviving) daughter, Margaret
, with a title-page quotation from St Augustine
and illustrations by her elder daughter, Anna Mary
.
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Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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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
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Beginning in 1854, BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...
Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
Timeline
1854: Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh...
Building item
1854
Artists Anna Mary Howitt
and Barbara Leigh Smith
were invited to join the Pre-Raphaelite Portfolio Club
, a group which offered critical appraisals of members' work.
December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...
