Mary Howitt, fødd Botham (12. mars 179930. januar 1888) var ein britisk forfattar. Ho var gift med forfattaren William Howitt (1792-1879) frå 1821.

Mary Howitt

Statsborgarskap Det sameinte kongeriket Storbritannia og Irland, Kongeriket Storbritannia
Fødd 12. mars 1799
Coleford i Gloucestershire
Død

30. januar 1888 (88 år)
Roma

Yrke lingvist, lyrikar, skribent, omsetjar, redaktør
Språk engelsk
Ektefelle William Howitt
Born Anna Mary Howitt, Alfred William Howitt, Charlton Howitt
Mary Howitt på Commons

Mary og William Howitt gav saman ut fleire litterære verk i vers og prosa, fyrst The forest minstrels and other poems (1821). Mary Howitt var varmt interessert i skandinavisk litteratur, og omsette romanar av Fredrika Bremer og eventyr av H.C. Andersen. Saman med maken skreiv ho òg The literature and romance of Nothern Europe (2 band, 1852). Sjølvbiografien hennar i to band blei gitt ut av dottera i 1889.

Verk endre

Nokre av verka Howitt skreiv åleine var:

  • Sketches of Natural History (1834)
  • Wood Leighton, or a Year in the Country (1836)
  • Birds and Flowers and other Country Things (1838)
  • Hymns and Fireside Verses (1839)
  • Hope on, Hope ever, a Tale (1840)
  • Strive and Thrive (1840)
  • Sowing and Reaping, or What will come of it (1841)
  • Work and Wages, or Life in Service (1842)
  • Which is the Wiser? or People Abroad (1842)
  • Little Coin, Much Care (1842)
  • No Sense like Common Sense (1843)
  • Love and Money (1843)
  • My Uncle the Clockmaker (1844)
  • The Two Apprentices (1844)
  • My own Story, or the Autobiography of a Child (1845)
  • Fireside Verses (1845)
  • Ballads and other Poems (1847)
  • The Children's Year (1847)[1]
  • The Childhood of Mary Leeson (1848)
  • Our Cousins in Ohio (1849)
  • The Heir of Wast-Wayland (1851)
  • The Dial of Love (1853)
  • Birds and Flowers and other Country Things (1855)
  • The Picture Book for the Young (1855)
  • M. Howitt's Illustrated Library for the Young (1856; two series)
  • Lillieslea, or Lost and Found (1861)
  • Little Arthur's Letters to his Sister Mary (1861)
  • The Poet's Children (1863)
  • The Story of Little Cristal (1863)
  • Mr. Rudd's Grandchildren (1864)
  • Tales in Prose for Young People (1864)
  • M. Howitt's Sketches of Natural History (1864)
  • Tales in Verse for Young People (1865)
  • Our Four-footed Friends (1867)
  • John Oriel's Start in Life (1868)
  • Pictures from Nature (1869)
  • Vignettes of American History (1869)
  • A Pleasant Life (1871)
  • Birds and their Nests (1872)
  • Natural History Stories (1875)
  • Tales for all Seasons (1881)
  • Tales of English Life, including Middleton and the Middletons (1881)[2]

Kjelder endre

  1. Mary Botham Howitt; Anna Mary Howitt (1847). The Children's Year. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. s. 3–. 
  2. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28, Mary Howitt