I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

Richard Hovey, 1864 – 1900
Mary Howitt biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mary Howitt

Author Name:

Mary Howitt

Born As:

Mary Botham

Other Names:

Born:

12 Mar 1799

Died:

30 Jan 1888




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Selected Works:


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
The Childhood of Mary Leeson - 1848
Our Cousins in Ohio - 1849
The Heir of Wast-Waylan - 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
The Spider and the Fly

Mary's poem the "Spider and the Fly" was originally published in 1829.
When Lewis Carroll was readying Alice's Adventures Under Ground for publication, he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song with a parody of Mary's poem. The Lobster Quadrille, which is an important part of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is a parody of Mary's poem concerning a spider and a fly.                          
Mother Ann Wood
Father Samuel Howitt
Husband William Howitt, two daughters, Margaret and Anna Mary, two sons, Alfred William and Herbert Charlton.




                          
                          
Alfred William Howitt, was to be renowned as an Australian explorer, anthropologist and naturalist and the discoverer of the remains of the explorers Burke and Wills, which he brought to Melbourne for burial.