Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
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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.
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.
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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...