William Howitt

Standard Name: Howitt, William

Connections

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Travel Mary Howitt
MH , on a walking holiday with her husband , passed close to Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, at the site of her novel Wood Leighton.
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
1: 315-16
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
134
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research.
110: 147
Travel Mary Howitt
MH , her husband , and their daughter Margaret left England with the intention of visiting Brussels, then Switzerland, then Italy.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
245-6
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Paston
The subjects of the first collection include Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) , Mary Howitt and her husband , and Lady Hester Stanhope .
Textual Production Anna Mary Howitt
Anna Mary Howitt (now Watts) published with the Psychological Press of London a composite volume entitled The Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation, containing the Life and Works of Dr. Justinus Kerner, and William Howitt
Textual Production Mary Howitt
MH and her husband, William Howitt , produced their first collaborative work in volume form: a book of poems entitled The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems.
A different book of this title, published in...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
MH and her husband published jointly, with their initials, The Desolation of Eyam; The Emigrant, A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Poems.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Howitt
William and MH edited under both of their names three numbers of the ambitious Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, founded to publish both eminent and upcoming writers and to tackle burning social...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
MH and her husband William Howitt published The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
Mitford sought to secure a review from either Mary or William Howitt , but Mary replied that reviews had already appeared in the journals they had links with. Another friend, Barbara Hofland , reviewed it...
Textual Production Georgina Munro
GM published in The People's Journal (later The People's and Howitt's Journal) over the whole of its run; her sixteen contributions are mainly short stories.
The People's Journal began in 1846 and Howitt 's...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
Early in her marriage, living in Nottingham, MH wrote both poetry and prose. Her early poem Wild Crocus in Nottingham Meadows treats a sight which she also, in February 1835, described lyrically in a letter...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
This work exemplifies the way that Mary and William Howitt functioned like a single, combined author: she here recycles some passages which had appeared under his pseudonym, Wilfred, fourteen years earlier in the journal Kaleidoscope.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
158
Textual Production Mary Howitt
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...
Residence 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.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
90, 131, 133
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 172
Residence Eliza Meteyard
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...

Timeline

17 February 1847: The Whittington Club (named after the poor...

Building item

17 February 1847

The Whittington Club (named after the poor boy who became Lord Mayor of London) held its first meeting. Unlike traditional gentlemen's clubs, it welcomed women and lower-middle-class men.

Texts

Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt, editors. Howitt’s Journal of Literature and Popular Progress. W. Lovett.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Desolation of Eyam. Wightman and Cramp, 1827.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852.