Anna Mary Howitt

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Standard Name: Howitt, Anna Mary
Birth Name: Anna Mary Howitt
Nickname: Annie
Married Name: Anna Mary Watts
Pseudonym: A. M.
Pseudonym: A. M. H. W.
Anna Mary Howitt was connected on the one hand with the social and publishing circles of her parents, the hard-working pillars of the London literary establishment, and on the other hand with a group of forward-looking, feminist women of her own age. She was most productive, both as writer and painter, during the 1850s. Her pictures included delicate landscapes and ambitious history paintings. Her written output runs the gamut through journalism, translation, letters, poetry, a travel book, children's stories, and memoirs.

Connections

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Textual Production Charles Dickens
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...
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...
Publishing Christina Rossetti
In the four months following the end of her engagement to James Collinson no new poems were entered in her notebook, but the broken engagement was not necessarily the cause, since there are several other...
Publishing Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt : An Autobiography appeared posthumously, edited by Howitt's younger (and only surviving) daughter, Margaret , with a title-page quotation from St Augustine and illustrations by her elder daughter, Anna Mary .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Publishing Mary Howitt
Children's publisher Darton and Co. issued Mary Howitt 's Tales in Verse for the Young. The Little Mariner, and Other Poems in 1850, in a volume that includes Madam Fortescue and her Cat (with three...
politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee confirmed the text of BLSB 's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) and Anna Mary Howitt were engrossed in painting and poetry.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Occupation John Ruskin
Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
In From the Antique, a dramatic lyric composed on 28 June 1854,
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
3: 449
CR 's speaker laments: It's a weary life, it is: she said:—
Doubly blank in a woman's lot:
I wish...
Friends, Associates Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Of her diverse network of friends, BLSB wrote to an aunt in 1857, I am one of the cracked people of the world, and I like to herd with the cracked such as A.M.H. [...
Friends, Associates Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB 's other prominent women friends included Adelaide Procter , Anna Mary Howitt (Mary 's daughter), and Anna Brownell Jameson .
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Siddal
ES had met some female associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood : artists Anna Mary Howitt (daughter of Mary Howitt ) and Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon), as well as Bessie Rayner Parkes .
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Siddal
While recovering from illness in HastingsES visited Barbara Leigh Smith and Anna Mary Howitt at Smith's nearby cottage, Scalands in Sussex.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester City Art Galleries.
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Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
Beginning in 1854, BRP and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...

Timeline

1854: Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh...

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1854

Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh Smith were invited to join the Pre-Raphaelite Portfolio Club , a group which offered critical appraisals of members' work.

December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...

National or international item

December 1855

Barbara Leigh Smith , later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee (sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.

18 August 1882: The Married Women's Property Act gave women...

National or international item

18 August 1882

The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.

5 January 1907: Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died...

Building item

5 January 1907

Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.

Texts

Howitt, Anna Mary. An Art-Student in Munich. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853.
Howitt, Anna Mary. An Art-Student in Munich. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.
Watts, Alaric, and Anna Mary Howitt. Aurora. King, 1875.
Howitt, Anna Mary et al. “Some Passages from the Child-life of Lucy Meridyth”. The Golden Casket, edited by Mary Howitt, James Hogg and Sons, 1861.
Howitt, Anna Mary. The Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation. Psychological Press, 1883.
Howitt, Anna Mary. The School of Life. Ward and Lock, 1856.