Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Howitt
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Standard Name: Howitt, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Botham
Married Name: Mary Howitt
Pseudonym: Wilfreda
Between them, Mary Howitt
and her husband William
wrote and published over 180 books. Hers alone, at her death, occupied forty pages of the British Museum
printed catalogue.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Bearing the expenses of a large family, they needed to harness their literary productivity to earning potential.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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As an opportunistic writer in several low-status, low-cost genres, accustomed to placing the same work in several successive venues, MH
left a complex, even confusing bibliography, not yet reduced to order by scholars.
Meredith, Louisa Anne. Our Wild Flowers. New Edition, Tilt and Bogue, 1843.
The title page sports an epigraph by Mary Howitt
, and the volume is illustrated with coloured plates from the author's original drawings.
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Fredrika Bremer
FB published a novel entitled En dagbok, whose composition she had interrupted for her theological work. An anonymous English translation, first printed in the USA, joined several of her other titles in Smith's Standard...
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Anna Mary Howitt
AMH
's first art commission was apparently the illustrations for her mother
's Hymns and Fireside Verses, executed in her early teens and published in 1839. After her death her mother's autobiography also appeared with her illustrations.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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Sarah Josepha Hale
The original edition ran to just over nine hundred pages, and was illustrated with two hundred and thirty portrait wood engravings. SJH
dated her prefatory material at Philadelpha on 4 July 1851; a note added...
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Fredrika Bremer
FB published her most famous novel, the feminist bildungsroman Hertha, eller En själs historia [the history of a soul], which Mary Howitt
translated into English as Hertha the same year.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. 2012, https://nordicwomensliterature.net/.
“NEW NOVEL, by the Author of ‘Alice Wentworth.’-Just ready, in”. The Times, No. 22395, 16 June 1856, p. 13, https://link-gale-com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/apps/doc/CS218271440/TTDA?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=d657e63b.
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Fredrika Bremer
FB set her drama about rebellion and reconciliation, Trälinnan, in pre-Christian, Viking Scandinavia. An English version by Mary Lowell Putnam
was published before May 1844, and another by Mary Howitt
followed, both titled...
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Elizabeth Ham
EH
anonymously contributed Mabel (a ghost story about a deaf girl) to an anthology, The Remembrance, edited by Thomas Roscoe
and dedicated to Queen Adelaide
.
This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Mary Howitt
, as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina
's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel
's Sudden Light. The...
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Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
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Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic...
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
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.
In order to pay for this trip, MF
wrote a column titled Things and Thoughts in Europe. In this capacity she travelled through England, Scotland, France and Italy at a time when...
