Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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William Howitt
Standard Name: Howitt, William
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Mary Howitt | MH
(along with her husband William
) wrote for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, the Unitarian Monthly Repository, and other periodicals. |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | William Howitt
had been awarded a pension in 1865. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband
set out for London, where they were introduced into literary circles. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 25, 224 |
| 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... |
| politics | Mary Howitt | MH
and her husband
witnessed first-hand the riots in Nottingham following the rejection of the Reform Bill, including the burning and looting of Nottingham Castle. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 120-1 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | 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. Colles, William Morris. Literature and the Pension List. Henry Glaisher. |
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