William Howitt

CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...

MH and her husband set out for London, where they were introduced into literary circles.

She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold , Mary and William Howitt , and Harriet Martineau . The difficulties of social life for unattached women are visible in her regret and anxiety over...

One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary and William Howitt .

She also liked to escape from Manchester when she was able to. She spent the evening of Christmas 1850 at William and Mary Howitt 's home in London swapping ghost stories with them and Eliza Meteyard .

She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans (who wrote to ask her for an autograph),Jane Porter , Amelia Opie (that warm-hearted person),

EG gave the manuscript of Mary Barton to William Howitt for his advice—he later claimed to have suggested the novel—and he in turn showed it to John Forster , a reader for Chapman and Hall

The Trollopes' collaborative work, whose title was influenced by William and Mary Howitt 's Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, is a collection of previously written articles, all concerning Italian literary...

When Reeve later retold the Charoba story in The Progress of Romance, 1785, it was as a specimen of the genre, with implicit reference to some of Rowe's critical points. William Howitt (born in...

Readers were often unable to distinguish between the two Howitts. Mary Russell Mitford , however, reading The Book of the Seasons (published under William 's name alone, in 1831, at both London and Philadelphia), rightly...

This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett , since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her...

While living on the east coast she had continued in her activities as a naturalist and became, through correspondence, acquainted with notable scientists in Europe and Australia. With them she discussed her collection of insects...

Other key figures involved included Charles Dickens , Giuseppe Mazzini , Mary and William Howitt , and Douglas Jerrold . Scholar Kathryn Gleadle calls this radical unitarian club a unique, feminist experiment in adult...

MH and her husband witnessed first-hand the riots in Nottingham following the rejection of the Reform Bill, including the burning and looting of Nottingham Castle.

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. Bearing the expenses of a...