Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt ( born March 12, 1799 in Coleford, Forest of Dean ( district) in Gloucestershire, † January 30, 1888 in Rome) was an English writer.

Life

Mary Botham Howitt William married in 1821 the Quakers. Both wrote for magazines and calendars poems and other contributions that they jointly published in collected editions: The forest minstrel (1823 ) and The desolation of Eyam (1827 ), this was followed by other community work, so Stories of English and foreign life, 1853.

From 1840 to 1842 they remained at Heidelberg. During this time, Mary translations and adaptations into English from French, German, Danish and Swedish began to create: various fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen; Works by Alphonse de Lamartine, Geneviève, histoire d'une servante; Emilie Flygare - Carlen; Sophie von Knorring; Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Meir Aron Goldschmidt, Jacob Bendixen. A Jew; from German: Christoph von Schmid; Adalbert Stifter ( three stories ); Henriette Paalzow, Thomas Thyrnau; Friedrich Wilhelm Hack countries, trade and commerce; in particular the works of Swedish suffragette Fredrika Bremer (18 translations), this, she received a medal of the Swedish Academy. To the jointly created work The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe (1852 ) she contributed the larger share.

The collection of fables written by Wilhelm Hey, who appeared with illustrations by Otto Speckter 1833 in Germany, she was out in London in 1844, she became known as "Otto Speckter 's Fable Book".

1843 the family moved to London. William went in 1852 with his sons William and Alfred Herbert Charlton with the gold rush to Australia. Alfred Howitt stayed there and excelled in the national development and as an ethnologist, William came back in 1854 with the material for a series of books. Mary, meanwhile, was moved with her daughters Margaret and Mary Anna Highgate.

William published in 1863 a work on spiritualism and thus forfeited the esteem in which they both enjoyed. From 1871, they held each summer on in the summer in Teodone at Brunico and winter in Rome. William died on 3 March 1879 in Rome. Mary Howitt laid on May 26, 1880 in Maia the foundation for a Villa: "we shouldhave a little home of our own ' in the Holy Land Tirol ' ... which we Shall call ' Marie rest .'" 1882, she converted to Catholicism and was baptized in the chapel of the castle Rametz. She died in 1888 during the winter stay in Rome.

The Spider and the Fly

In 1865, the first published in 1829 moralizing poem by Mary Howitt already belonged to the famous children's literature in England. Lewis Carroll parodied it in his book Alice in Wonderland, when including the ductus in the " lobster quadrille ":

Howitt:

Carroll:

Howitt's morale ... and for the childish audience, " but she ne'er came out again!"

Works

• Of the approximately one hundred poetic works, none has been translated into the German language. Known in English is still called " The Spider and the Fly "
• The child 's picture and verse book Commonly called Otto Speckter 's Fable Book, with the original German and French with. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844.
• The Dusseldorf artist's album. - Dusseldorf: . Arnz, 1854 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf

Setting

• David Del Tredici, The Spider and The Fly for high soprano, high baritone, and orchestra (1998) DNB

Daughters

Anna Mary Howitt

The daughter of Anna Mary Howitt (1824 - July 23, 1884 in Teodone ( Brunico ) ) studied in Munich with Wilhelm von Kaulbach painting, her letters from Munich were first published in 1853. The colored representation of everyday life in Munich and many events such as Oktoberfest, Passion Play in Oberammergau, the inauguration of Bavaria, etc., which has witnessed personally the author, give an insight into life in Munich from 1850 to 1852.

• Anna Mary Howitt, Gorgeous Art Munich. Letters of an English art student 1850-1852 Edited, translated and annotated by Cornelia Oelwein, Dachau: ET - Anst. Bayerland, 2002, initially Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1853.
• The Pioneers of the Spiritual Reformation: life and works of Dr. Justinus Kerner (adapted from the German ): William Howitt and his work for spiritualism: biographical sketches, London: Psychological Press Association: EW Allen, 1883.

Margaret Howitt

The daughter Margaret Howitt ( * 1839) was published posthumously, the autobiography of the mother and wrote monographs on Friedrich Overbeck and Fredrika Bremer.

• Friedrich Overbeck his life and work; described by his letters and other Documenten the handwritten estate, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1886