Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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William Howitt
Standard Name: Howitt, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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 |
| Birth | Anna Mary Howitt | |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 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: 213 |
| 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 |
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.