Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Howitt
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Standard Name: Howitt, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Botham
Married Name: Mary Howitt
Pseudonym: Wilfreda
Between them, Mary Howitt
and her husband William
wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum
printed catalogue.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
1, 261
Bearing the expenses of a large family, they needed to harness their literary productivity to earning potential.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
1, 134-5
As an opportunistic writer in several low-status, low-cost genres, accustomed to placing the same work in several successive venues, MH
left a complex, even confusing bibliography, not yet reduced to order by scholars.
On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt
from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies
(a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived...
Reception
Elizabeth Gaskell
Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may...
Reception
L. E. L.
Although LEL died on the cusp of the Victorian period, she was widely read in its early years, and was invoked explicitly by many other writers who followed her, including women poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.
Publishing
Christina Rossetti
In the four months following the end of her engagement to James Collinson
no new poems were entered in her notebook, but the broken engagement was not necessarily the cause, since there are several other...
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
The first volume made up of collected numbers of The People's Journal launched in London on 1 July 1846, with a long advertisement insisting that people was used in the sense of nation, not class...
Publishing
Anna Mary Howitt
During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH
wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...
Publishing
Caroline Bowles
In April 1835 CB
's review of Mary Howitt
's The Seven Temptations appeared in Blackwood's.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
Through a contact of Mary Howitt
, EG
published a number of stories in the AmericanSartain's Union Magazine, including one of English domestic life entitled The Last Generation in England, that appeared...
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
FB's most famous book of travels, The Homes of the New World, which originated in letters home to her sister Agathe
, was advertised in English translation (by Mary Howitt
) in three volumes...
Publishing
Eliza Meteyard
It was her earnings from this book, said Mary Howitt
, that served to set up a younger brother in Australia.
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
188
Publishing
Eliza Meteyard
She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
181
Mary
and William Howitt
helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
Mary Howitt
wrote indignantly this year (early in which her translation of The Neighbours had already appeared) of working against the clock to try to circumvent the competing, cheaper, pirated English version put out by...
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
These two books appeared in English the same year, Brothers and Sisters (which had been delayed, FB said, by her laziness), before 10 June. Bremer had changed her publishing arrangements: a different Swedish publisher undertook...
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
FB had set out on her American travels with some idea that in that continent of realism she would abandon the novel for other forms of writing. But early in her explorations, she decided to...
