Mary Howitt
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Between them, Bearing the expenses of a large family, they needed to harness their literary productivity to earning potential. As an opportunistic writer in several low-status, low-cost genres, accustomed to placing the same work in several successive venues,
left a complex, even confusing bibliography, not yet reduced to order by scholars.
and her husband
wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the
printed catalogue.