William Howitt

The Trollopes' collaborative work, whose title was influenced by William and Mary Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, is a collection of previously written articles, all concerning Italian literary...

When Reeve later retold the Charoba story in The Progress of Romance, 1785, it was as a specimen of the genre, with implicit reference to some of Rowe's critical points. William Howitt (born in...

The subjects of the first collection include Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) , Mary Howitt and her husband , and Lady Hester Stanhope .

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.

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),

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...

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...

She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold , Mary and William Howitt , and Harriet Martineau . The difficulties of social life for unattached women are visible in her regret and anxiety over...

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...

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

While living on the east coast she had continued in her activities as a naturalist and became, through correspondence, acquainted with notable scientists in Europe and Australia. With them she discussed her collection of insects...

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...

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 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.

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...