Joy Dunicliff

In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...

MH 's biographer Joy Dunicliff credits her with introducing the reading public to both Keats and Gaskell .

The title of the series (used in the Bodleian though not in the British Library catalogue) was Tales for the People and their Children. Following the British Libary dating (since authorities differ) MC's own...

MH 's popular Ballads and Other Poems were out (dated 1847), dedicated to William Howitt as my Best Counseller and Teacher; my Literary Associate for a Quarter of a Century, my Husband, and my Friend...

MH published Our Cousins in Ohio, a sequel to The Children's Year for which she used the letters and diary of her now-dead emigrant sister Emma .

Thomas Tegg published MH 's My Own Story; or, The Autobiography of a Child, to complete the series Tales for the People and their Children.