William Howitt

Standard Name: Howitt, William

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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.
181
Mary and William Howitt helped her secure a generous £1,000 from...
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.
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.
136
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.
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.
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.
136
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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...
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
Residence Eliza Meteyard
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...
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.
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.
225
Residence Mary Howitt
MH and her husband moved from West Hill Lodge in Highgate to The Orchard in Claremont near Esher: that is, from the north to the south of London and further away from the city.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
238

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