William Howitt

EG first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary and William Howitt 's Visits to Remarkable Places.

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.

During the 1850s, following the death of their schoolboy son Claude, MH and her husband experimented with spiritualism. MH received on one occasion a spirit message from Claude.

MH was received into the Roman Catholic Church after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband in the Protestant Cemetery.

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.

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 's nearly sixty-year-old husband and their two sons sailed for Australia to look for new opportunities.

In Leicester she met William Howitt ; she later visited his family at Heanor in Derbyshire. His mother was a compounder of herbal medicines. William loved Walter Scott , the Romantic poets, and the...

Writer and editor William Howitt , husband of MH , died in Rome.

Her father, William Howitt , was a man of many talents who also became a full-time writer after he abandoned an earlier career in pharmacy.

Mary Botham married William Howitt at the Friends' Meeting House, Carter Street, Uttoxeter.

She also liked to escape from Manchester when she was able to. She spent the evening of Christmas 1850 at William and Mary Howitt 's home in London swapping ghost stories with them and Eliza Meteyard .

She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans (who wrote to ask her for an autograph),Jane Porter , Amelia Opie (that warm-hearted person),

HCA dedicated his book A Poet's Day Dreams to Charles Dickens , whom he visited in 1857. He also, while visiting England, stayed with William and Mary Howitt at The Elms, Lower Clapton. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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...