Carl Ray Woodring
associates her abandonment of painting with the Howitt family's immersion in spiritualism,
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but there can be no doubt that Ruskin's harshness was a blow. When Anna Mary's aunt Anna Harrison
persuaded...
Textual Features
Anna Mary Howitt
Carl Ray Woodring
calls these poems spiritualized, latently spiritualistic.
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Textual Features
Mary Howitt
According to Carl Ray Woodring
, the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand
.
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It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...
Reception
Anna Mary Howitt
Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe
's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or...
Literary responses
Matilda Hays
Reviews were mixed, but the series was not an overall success, as is shown by its being abandoned for lack of support.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The Quarterly Review panned the translators' efforts and labelled the series a smuggler's...
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Texts
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.