William Howitt

William Howitt ( * 1792 in Heanor, Derbyshire, † March 3, 1879 in Rome ) was an English writer.

William Howitt ( pron. hoitt ), came from a Quaker family, married after incomplete studies in 1823 with Mary Botham, who has made under the name of Mary Howitt himself known as a writer, and published together with this the poetry collections: The forest minstrel (1823 ) and The desolation of Eyam (1827 ), where other Community work ( including Stories of English and foreign life, 1853) followed.

Mary worked as a novelist and writer youth, her husband as a cultural historian and archaeologist. The latter initially wrote:

  • The book of the seasons (1831 )
  • Tales of Pantika (1835 ) and
  • Rural life in England (1836 ), in which he describes attractive manners and customs of the country people;
  • Colonization and christianity (1838 );
  • The boy 's country book (1839 ) and the splendid work
  • Visits to remarkable places etc (1840, 2nd series 1842 new ed 1856).

A two-year stay in Heidelberg prompted the works:

  • The student life of Germany (1841 ); Reprinting, translation by Kurt U. Bertram, Hilden: WJK -Verl. 2004 ISBN 3-933892-66- X
  • The rural and domestic life of Germany (1842 ) and the satirical
  • German experiences (1844 ).

After returning to England in 1844, he published:

  • The aristocracy of England ( 1846); further
  • Homes and haunts of the British poets (1847 );
  • The hall and the Hamlet ( 1847); the novel
  • Madam Dorington of the Dene (1851 ) and Others

1847, the couple had left the Quakers. Howitt went in 1852 with his sons William and Alfred Herbert Charlton with the gold rush to Australia, from where he returned in 1854 to England. Mary, meanwhile, was moved with her daughters Margaret and Mary Anna Highgate. Of his later works should be mentioned:

  • A boy 's adventures in the wilds of Australia ( 1854);
  • Land, labor and gold, or two years in Victoria (1855 );
  • Tallangetta, the squatter 's home (1857 );
  • Illustrated history of England (1861, 6 vols );
  • The history of the supernatural in all ages and nations (1863 );
  • Discovery in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand ( 1865);
  • The mad - was -planet, and other poems (1871 ) and a

From 1871, he and Mary talked to summer in the Austrian summer resort in Teodone at Brunico and winter in Rome. Towards the end of his life he devoted himself to spiritualism and forfeited the reputation which he enjoyed previously. He died on March 3, 1879 during a stay in Rome.

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