Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 332
William Howitt
Standard Name: Howitt, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | |
| Publishing | Mary Howitt | Writing as Wilfred and Wilfreda, William
and Mary Howitt
published a series of pieces in the short-lived periodical Kaleidoscope. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 153 |
| Publishing | Mary Howitt | MH
(along with her husband William
) wrote for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, the Unitarian Monthly Repository, and other periodicals. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 136 |
| Publishing | Fredrika Bremer | The next year FB followed this with I Dalarna, 1844, a novel set in Dalecarlia, a remote, still semi-pagan district of Sweden. One of two English versions, Life in Dalecarlia: the Parsonage of... |
| Publishing | Fredrika Bremer | The first volume made up of collected numbers of The People's Journal launched in London on 1 July 1846, with a long advertisement insisting that people was used in the sense of nation, not class... |
| Publishing | Eliza Meteyard | She had formed the intention to write it in 1850, and was later helped by the loan of a huge haul of manuscripts. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 181 |
| Reception | Eliza Meteyard | It was granted by William Gladstone
at the instigation of Mary
and William Howitt
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer
(who was probably introduced to EG
by William
and Mary Howitt
) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may... |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | The reviewers for the Gentleman's Magazine later turned on MH
when they discovered that she was the wife (not sister) of William Howitt
, of whom they disapproved. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 136 Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 53-4 |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | The assessment of her literary contribution has been negatively impacted by the fact that she published much work in periodicals and wrote much for children and the working classes. Her collaboration with her husband was... |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | William Howitt
had been awarded a pension in 1865. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1889. |
| Residence | Mary Howitt | Inspired by stories of the cheapness of life in Germany, MH
, her husband
and five children moved to the Rhineland (an unfortunate, because expensive, choice); they lived two years at Heidelberg. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 142-3, 145 |
| Residence | Mary Howitt | A couple of years after William Howitt
's return from Australia, he and MH
moved the short distance from The Hermitage to West Hill Lodge, still in Highgate, where they remained until 1866. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992. 225 |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.