William Howitt

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...

She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts.Mary and William Howitt helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...

In January 1847, CB 's letter Mr. Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Poets appeared in the Athenæum.

Writing as Wilfred and Wilfreda, William and Mary Howitt published a series of pieces in the short-lived periodical Kaleidoscope.

MH (along with her husband William ) wrote for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, the Unitarian Monthly Repository, and other periodicals.

The next year FB followed this with I Dalarna, 1844, a novel set in Dalecarlia, a remote, still semi-pagan district of Sweden. One of two English versions, Life in Dalecarlia: the Parsonage of...

Shortly after her husband 's death, Mary Howitt was awarded a Civil List pension of £100 per annum in recognition of her services to literature.

It was granted by William Gladstone at the instigation of Mary and William Howitt .

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...

The reviewers for the Gentleman's Magazine later turned on MH when they discovered that she was the wife (not sister) of William Howitt , of whom they disapproved.

The assessment of her literary contribution has been negatively impacted by the fact that she published much work in periodicals and wrote much for children and the working classes. Her collaboration with her husband was...

William Howitt had been awarded a pension in 1865.

The monument to her and her husband at Nottingham Castle stands in a most remarkable building which is, however, inescapably off the beaten track. In 1928 a new fire-engine at Uttoxeter was named Mary Howitt...

MH and her husband moved to Lower Parliament Street in Nottingham. They lived in Nottingham (later in a larger house in Market Place) until spring 1836.

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...