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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Barbara Hofland | BH
seems to have remained saleable for a long time, since The Gift of Friendship . . . with contributions by . . . Mrs. Hofland appeared as late as 1877. Others included were Mary Howitt |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary
and William Howitt
's Visits to Remarkable Places. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 37 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. 637 (11 January 1840): 34-6 |
Anthologization | Anna Mary Howitt | Anna Mary Howitt (now Watts)
, as the author of An Art-Student in Munich, contributed Some Passages from the Child-life of Lucy Meridyth to an anthology compiled by her mother, Mary Howitt
: The... |
Anthologization | Mary Cowden Clarke | In 1848 MCC
may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt
and Anna Maria Hall
. But Richard D. Altick
believes the stories The Princess... |
Birth | Anna Mary Howitt | 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, 1992. 95 |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith
, Christina Rossetti
, Elizabeth Siddal
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Anna Mary Howitt
, and Mary Howitt
conducted a series of seances at the Hermitage, the Howitt family home. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 97 |
Dedications | Anna Mary Howitt | She wrote a warmly affectionate dedication to her parents, William
and Mary Howitt
. A US edition appeared the following year; a second edition was dated 1880. The work has appeared in German as Herrliche... |
Education | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Mary Howitt
, a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Mew | Young Charlotte developed an adolescent crush on her headmistress, Lucy Harrison
, who was a niece of writer Mary Howitt
, a charismatic Quaker, and a scholar of English literature. Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, No. 1, pp. 43 - 7. 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
's mother, Mary Howitt
, became a well-known and much-loved writer in many genres, particularly for children. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
adopted her daughter, who had been abandoned, from a parish workhouse. Mary Howitt
wrote a feeling account of the first discovery of the baby lying on a builders' sand-heap at 5 a.m. on the... |
Fictionalization | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 281 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Friends, Associates | Ralph Waldo Emerson | As a result of his lecture tours, he became one of the most prominent American intellectuals in Britain, and was personally connected to numerous writers including Jane Carlyle
and Mary Howitt
. |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn, 1843. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836. I: 145 |