Anna Mary Howitt

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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.

Milestones

15 January 1824

AMH was born, the first child of writers Mary and William Howitt to be delivered alive, though Mary had been four times pregnant since her marriage in 1821.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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By 14 May 1853

Anna Mary Howitt published An Art-Student in Munich, written on the advice of her mother, Mary Howitt , and of Elizabeth Gaskell .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
41
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1333 (1853): 584-5

1883

Anna Mary Howitt (now Watts) published with the Psychological Press of London a composite volume entitled The Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation, containing the Life and Works of Dr. Justinus Kerner, and William Howitt and his Work for Spiritualism.
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.

23 July 1884

Anna Mary Watts (formerly AMH ) died of diptheria at Dietenheim in Germany.
Howitt, Mary. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography. Editor Howitt, Margaret, W. Isbister.
1: viii
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Biography

Birth and Family

15 January 1824

AMH was born, the first child of writers Mary and William Howitt to be delivered alive, though Mary had been four times pregnant since her marriage in 1821.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
95