James Britten

Standard Name: Britten, James

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Literary responses Mary Howitt
James Britten thought these some of MH 's best poems.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
179
Elizabeth Barrett Browning also admired the ballads.
Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
90
Literary responses Mary Howitt
This must be the book which saddened Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Chorley when they judged that it turns out to be a dead failure.
qtd. in
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 175
In his obituary of MH , James Britten
Reception Mary Howitt
On MH 's death, James Britten wrote that her name was at one time a household word in every home where there were children.
qtd. in
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
260
Textual Production Mary Howitt
In their preface the Howitts say that poetry has been our youthful amusement and our increasing daily enjoyment in happy and our solace in sorrowful hours.
qtd. in
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
258
James Britten suspected that there was more of...
Textual Production Mary Howitt
MH was an indefatigable letter-writer, who corresponded with a remarkable range both of eminent names and of entirely private people. Her almost life-long correspondence with her sister, Anna Harrison , forms the basis of a...

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