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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of the aged Mary Howitt. She is dressed in black: a dark hood covers her grey hair and white cap; her black, patterned cloak, tied with dark ribbons, covers a dark dress buttoned in front. Her eyes are cast down.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Publishing Fredrika Bremer
Travels in the Holy Land was available in Britain at New Year 1862, and Greece and the Greeks: being the Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and its Islands, in...
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
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
Reception Eliza Meteyard
It was granted by William Gladstone at the instigation of Mary and William Howitt .
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.

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