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Mary Howitt (1799–1888)

Auteur de L'araignée et la mouche

48+ oeuvres 1,496 utilisateurs 115 critiques 1 Favoris

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Comprend les noms: Mary Howitt, Mary Howitt

Crédit image: Mary Howitt. Frontispiece from An autobiography (1889)

Œuvres de Mary Howitt

L'araignée et la mouche (1829) 1,418 exemplaires
Wood Leighton (Nonsuch Classics) (2006) 5 exemplaires
Floral Gems 2 exemplaires
Mary Howitt; an autobiography (1973) 2 exemplaires
The heir of Wast-Wayland (1851) 2 exemplaires
The children's year 1 exemplaire
Why The Sea Is Salt 1 exemplaire
True Story of My Life 1 exemplaire
The Queens of England (1901) 1 exemplaire
With The Flowers 1 exemplaire
Martha and Mary 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

One Hundred and One Famous Poems (1916) — Contributeur, quelques éditions1,932 exemplaires
Poucette (1835) — Traducteur, quelques éditions773 exemplaires
The Treasure Chest (1932) — Contributeur — 258 exemplaires
A Golden Land (1958) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
The history of magic (1966) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions20 exemplaires
Ferdinand Freiligraths Werke - Neue Pracht-Ausgabe (1900) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Autres noms
Botham, Mary
Botham, Mary Howitt
Date de naissance
1799-03-12
Date de décès
1888-01-30
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK (birth)
Lieu de naissance
Coleford, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Lieu du décès
Rome, Italy
Lieux de résidence
Rome, Italy
London, England, UK
Heidelberg, Germany
Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, UK
Heanor, England, UK
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK (tout afficher 8)
Meran, South Tirol, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Esher, Surrey, England, UK
Études
at home
Professions
poet
translator
children's book author
novelist
editor
Relations
Howitt, William (husband)
Courte biographie
Mary Howitt, née Botham, was born at Coleford in Gloucestershire, England, to a prosperous Quaker family. She was educated at home and read widely. She began writing poetry at a very early age. In 1821, she married William Howitt, a pharmacist, with whom she had several children. The couple began a joint writing career a few years later. Their early works consisted of poems and other pieces they contributed to annuals and periodicals; a selection was published in 1827 under the title of The Desolation of Eyam and other Poems. Eventually, they would publish 180 books together. Mary and her husband socialized with many important literary figures of the day, including Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1837, they went on a tour of northern England and stayed with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. That year, Mary began writing her well-known tales for children, a long series of books that met with great success. The couple moved to London in 1843. In the early 1840s, Mary Howitt became interested in Scandinavian literature, and learned Swedish and Danish so that she could translate works from those languages into English. She introduced the British public to Hans Christian Andersen's tales and Joseph Ennemoser's History of Magic. In 1852, her husband went for a few years to Australia with his brother hoping to make a fortune, and Mary wrote and edited works on her own. These included a Popular History of the United States (1859), and a three-volume novel, The Cost of Caergwyn (1864). She is credited as the author, translator, or editor of at least 110 works. Her autobiography Reminiscences of My Later Life was published in 1886. However, she's best remembered today as the author of the poem The Spider and the Fly, published in The New Year’s Gift and Juvenile Souvenir in 1829.

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The illustrations are wonderful in this book as is the poem they accompany. Great for a classroom read before halloween.
 
Signalé
Sharquin | 114 autres critiques | Sep 13, 2023 |
Genre
Picture books for children
Poetry
Illustration
Black-and-white
Fanciful
Subject
Cleverness
Flies
Personal conduct
Pride and vanity
Spiders
 
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kmgerbig | 114 autres critiques | Apr 28, 2023 |
This book is a poem written in the 19th century that was recently illustrated, and tells the story of a spider trying to lure a fly into his trap. This book does really well with rhyming and could be a useful tool to teach children about rhyming words. This book would be appropriate for early to intermediate readers.
 
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AlexBledsoe20 | 114 autres critiques | Apr 3, 2022 |
This book was a bit scary if I was a younger reader. The pictures were all black and white, the character was creepy looking, and in the end was a bit scary.
 
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kimmiestack | 114 autres critiques | Jun 29, 2021 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
48
Aussi par
8
Membres
1,496
Popularité
#17,173
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
115
ISBN
41
Langues
1
Favoris
1

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