Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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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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...
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...
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
Christina Rossetti
Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina...
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:...
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...
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
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
.
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Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Howitt
MH
's first child to be delivered alive, her daughter Anna Mary
, was born on 15 January 1824. She grew up to become a writer and artist.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Howitt
Their eldest daughter Anna Mary
frequently visited her parents after they settled abroad. She was at her father's deathbed.
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...
1854: Artists Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Leigh...
Building item
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...