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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary
and William Howitt
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 219 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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
. Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 32 |
Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | In old age JWM
was attentive to William Howitt
in his last illness. Margaret
, younger daughter of William and Mary Howitt
, duly visited her in return. Margaret gave her relations a vivid account... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | MH
's nearly sixty-year-old husband
and their two sons sailed for Australia to look for new opportunities. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 217-18 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | Writer and editor William Howitt
, husband of MH
, died in Rome. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 259 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Mary Howitt | 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Howitt | Mary Botham
married William Howitt
at the Friends' Meeting House, Carter Street, Uttoxeter. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 83 |
Dedications | Mary Howitt | 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... |
Dedications | Anna Mary Howitt | 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. The work has appeared in German as Herrliche... |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 148, 210-11 This was the decade when... |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | 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. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 254 |
Birth | Anna Mary Howitt | |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
first reached print alone when her gothic sketch Clopton Hall was included in Mary
and William Howitt
's Visits to Remarkable Places. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 37 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. 637 (11 January 1840): 34-6 |
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