1. Mary Howitt was an English poet, the author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.
19 Facts About Mary Howitt
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Mary Howitt Botham, daughter of Samuel Botham and Ann, was born at Coleford, Gloucestershire, where her parents lived temporarily, while her father, a prosperous Quaker surveyor and former farmer of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, looked after some mining property.
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Mary Howitt Botham was taught at home, read widely and began writing verse at a very early age.
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On 16 April 1821 she married William Mary Howitt and began a career of joint authorship with him.
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Mary Howitt's life was bound up with that of her husband; she was separated from him only during a period when he journeyed to Australia.
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On moving to Esher in 1837, Mary Howitt began writing a long series of well-known tales for children, with signal success.
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William and Mary Howitt moved to London in 1843, and after a second move in 1844, counted Tennyson amongst their neighbours.
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Mary Howitt had some years earlier arranged that the children's writer Hans Christian Andersen would visit Hillside to see the haymaking during his trip to England in 1847.
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Mary Howitt then translated into English and introduced Fredrika Bremer's novels.
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Mary Howitt translated many of Hans Christian Andersen's tales, such as.
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Mary Howitt edited for three years the Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, writing, among other articles, "Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England".
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Mary Howitt edited the Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, added an original appendix to her husband's translation of Joseph Ennemoser's History of Magic, and took the chief share in The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.
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Mary Howitt produced a Popular History of the United States, and a three-volume novel called The Cost of Caergwyn.
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Charlton Mary Howitt was drowned while engineering a road in New Zealand.
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Anna Mary Howitt spent two years in Munich with the artist Wilhelm von Kaulbach, an experience she wrote up as An Art-Student in Munich.
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Mary Howitt married Alaric Alfred Watts, wrote a biography of her father, and died while on a visit to her mother in Tirol in 1884.
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Margaret Mary Howitt wrote the Life of Fredrika Bremer and a memoir of her own mother.
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Mary Howitt's name was attached as author, translator or editor to at least 110 works.
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Mary Howitt was away from her residence in Meran in Tirol, spending the winter in Rome, when she died of bronchitis on 30 January 1888.