Harriett Mozley

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HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She issued three collections of tales for children and one adult novel, besides much writing for children's periodicals which is still unidentified. She also left interesting letters.
  • BirthName: Harriett Elizabeth Newman
    Many sources spell her first name Harriet, but she herself used two t's.

  • Married: Mozley
  • Pseudonyms: H. E. N.
    She signed letters this way.
    Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
    39
    ; The Author of the Fairy Bower
    Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
    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.

Milestones

1803

Harriett Newman (later HM ) was born in London, the third of six children in a remarkable family.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
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Late 1840

During her first year of motherhood, HM published, anonymously, her first book for children, The Fairy Bower; or, The History of a Month; its title-page said 1841.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
95

17 July 1852

HM died, apparently of a heart attack, aged forty-eight.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
198

Biography

Birth and Family

1803

Harriett Newman (later HM ) was born in London, the third of six children in a remarkable family.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
xvi-xvii

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