Mary Botham
(later MH
) and her sister Anna
were sent to Mrs. Parker's Dame School at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire.
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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.
Education
Mary Howitt
Mary Botham
(later MH
) and her sister
set out on the formidable journey to Ann Alexander's Friends' School (run by Sarah Bevan
and Anna Woolley
) at Croydon in Surrey.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Howitt
Mary was always very close to her sister Anna
(later known as Ann), who, born on 10 September 1797, was only eighteen months older than Mary. The pair even developed their own language. Anna married...
Textual Production
Anna Mary Howitt
Carl Ray Woodring
associates her abandonment of painting with the Howitt family's immersion in spiritualism,
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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but there can be no doubt that Ruskin's harshness was a blow. When Anna Mary's aunt Anna Harrison
persuaded...
Textual Production
Mary Howitt
MH
was an indefatigable letter-writer, who corresponded with a remarkable range both of eminent names and of entirely private people. Her almost life-long correspondence with her sister, Anna Harrison
, forms the basis of a...