1. William Howitt, was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects.
16 Facts About William Howitt
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William Howitt's parents were Quakers, and he was educated at the Friends public school at Ackworth, Yorkshire.
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William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a long literary career; the first of their joint productions was The Forest Minstrels and other Poems.
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In 1831, William Howitt produced a work that naturally resulted from his habits of observation and his genuine love of nature.
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In 1841, William Howitt, using the pseudonym Dr Cornelius, produced The Student Life of Germany, the first of a series of works on German social life and institutions.
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Mary William Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika Bremer and many of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen.
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In 1847 William Howitt published the 'Homes and Haunts of the most Eminent British Poets' with the publisher Richard Bently.
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William Howitt was known for leading the Victorian Relief Expedition, which set out to establish the fate of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition.
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On his return to England William Howitt had settled at Highgate and resumed his indefatigable book-making.
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William Howitt added his own conclusions from a practical examination of the higher phenomena through a course of seven years.
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From 1870 onwards William Howitt spent the summers in Tyrol and the winters in Rome, where he died.
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In 1880 Mary William Howitt had a house built for her in the spa town of Meran in South Tyrol and from then on divided her time between Rome and Meran.
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Mary Howitt was much affected by William's death, and in 1882 she joined the Roman Catholic Church, towards which she had been gradually moving during her connection with spiritualism.
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Anna Mary William Howitt was both an artist and a poet, and married Alaric Alfred Watts.
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Mary William Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter, Margaret William Howitt, in 1889.
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William Howitt wrote some fifty books, and his wife's publications, inclusive of translations, number over a hundred.