William Howitt
William Howitt | |
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Born | [1] | 18 December 1792
Died | 3 March 1879 Rome, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 86)
Education | Friends public school at Ackworth |
Occupation | Writer |
Spouse | Mary Botham |
Children | 4, including Anna and Alfred |
William Howitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after him and his wife.
Biography
Howitt was born in
In 1831, William Howitt produced a work that naturally resulted from his habits of observation and his genuine love of nature. It was a history of the changes in the face of the outside world in the different months of the year, and was entitled The Book of the Seasons, or the Calendar of Nature (1831). His Popular History of Priestcraft (1833) won him the favour of active
They moved to
In 1847 Howitt published the 'Homes and Haunts of the most Eminent British Poets' with the publisher Richard Bently. The Preface to the Second Edition dated 1847, and referring to careful revision of the work is included in the third edition, published by George Routledge & Sons in 1877, suggesting there were either two editions in 1847, or the first edition was earlier. With her husband Mary wrote, in 1852, The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.
In September 1852 William Howitt, with two of his sons, arrived in Melbourne Australia where he visited his younget brother and visited the newly discovered goldfields. The results of two years in the colony were A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia (1854), Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria (1855) and Tallangetta, the Squatter's Home (1857). His eldest son
On his return to England Howitt had settled at
From 1870 onwards Howitt spent the summers in
The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature. Anna Mary Howitt was both an artist and a poet, and married Alaric Alfred Watts.[4] Mary Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt, in 1889.[1] William Howitt wrote some fifty books, and his wife's publications, inclusive of translations, number over a hundred.
Published works
- A Popular History of Priestcraft in all Ages and Nations (1833)
- Calendar of Nature (1836)
- The Rural Life of England (1838)
- Colonization and Christianity: A Popular History of the Treatment of the Natives by the Europeans in all their Colonies (1838)
- ’'Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields and Scenes Illustrative …’’ (Two series, 1840–42)
- The Student-Life of Germany: By William Howitt, from the Unpublished MS. of Dr. Cornelius (1841)
- The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany (1842)
- The Life and Adventures of Jack of the Mill: commonly called Lord Othmill; created, for his eminent services, Baron Waldeck, and knight of Kitcottie; a fireside story; with forty illustrations on wood by G. F. Sargent (1844)
- Madam Dorrington of the Dene: the story of a life (1850) v.1, v.2, v.3
- The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a Complete History of the Literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, ... (1852)
- Land, Labour, and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria (1855)
- A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia; or, Herbert's Note-Book (1855)
- The Man of the People (1860)
- The History of the Supernatural in all Ages and Nations, and in all Churches, Christian and Pagan; Demonstrating a Universal Faith (1863)
- The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand (1865)
- The Mad War-Planet; And Other Poems (1871)
- " Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets" George Routledge & Sons 3rd Edition (1877)
As translator (incomplete list)
- Subtitle: To which is added an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-turning, and Spirit-rapping. Selected by Mary Howitt. [Editor's Preface closes "M. H."]
References
- ^ a b c d Dictionary of National Biography,1885–1900, Volume 28, William Howitt, now in the public domain.
- ^ The passage, which is used in chapter 31 of Volume I, is from p. 9 of Colonization and Christianity: "The barbarities and desperate outrages of the so-called Christian race, throughout every region of the world, and upon every people they have been able to subdue, are not to be paralleled by those of any other race, however fierce, however untaught, and however reckless of mercy and of shame, in any age of the earth."
- ^ Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science, and Art, with Biographical Memoirs, by Ernest Edwards, B.A. ; Ed. by Lovell Reeve, Lovell Reeve & Co., 1863
- ^ Anna Mary Howitt's ODNB entry: Retrieved 9 July 2011. Subscription required.
- This entry contains information from the Meran Stadtarchiv and an on the spot visit to the house in Meran, which has a plaque with her initials MAH and the date 1880.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Howitt, William". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Media related to William Howitt at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about William Howitt at Wikisource
- Quotations related to William Howitt at Wikiquote
- Works by William Howitt at Project Gutenberg
- Works by William Howitt at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about William Howitt at Internet Archive
- William Howitt at Library of Congress, with 54 library catalogue records