Female : Writer of books on natural history, esp for children & Poet. Brought up a Quaker. Married William Howitt in 1821. She translated many of Hans Christian Andersen's tales in 1846 and also Frederika Bremer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Coleford, Gloucs

Date of Birth : 1799 Date of Death : 1888 Age : 89

Pseudonyms : Mary Botham

1823-1830
The Forest Minstrel & Other Poems (1823) - with W Howitt
The Desolation of Eyam : The Emigrant - A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Poems
(1827) - with W Howitt

1831-1840
The Seven Temptations (1834)
Sketches of Natural History (1834)
Tales in Verse for the Young (1836 Darton, London)
Tales in Prose (1836)
Wood Leighton, or a Year in the Country (1836)
Hymns and Fireside Verses (1839 Darton & Clark)
Hope On ! Hope Ever ! or The Boyhood of Felix Law (1840 James Munroe, Boston)
Strive and Thrive (1840)

1841-1845
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, or How Poor Men Live (1842)
The Neighbours : A Story of Every-Day Life (1842) - with F Bremer
No Sense Like Common Sense, or Some Passages in the Life of Charles Middleton (1843)
(1843 Appleton, NY)
(Trans) The Home by F Bremer (1843)
Alice Franklin (1843)
Love and Money (1843)
My Uncle, the Clockmaker (1844)
The Two Apprentices (1844)
(Trans) E Carlen : The Rose of Tistelon (1844)
(Trans) F Bremer : The H. Family (1844)
(Trans) J C von Schmid : The Picture of the Virgin (1844)
(Trans) O Spektor : The Child's Picture and Verse-Book (1844)
(Trans) K Stober : The Curate's Favourite Pupil (1844)
Fireside Verses (1845 Darton & Clark, London)
(Trans) H C Andersen : The Improvisatore (1845)
(Trans) H C Andersen : Only a Fiddler ! (1845)
(Trans) H C Andersen : O.T. or Life in Denmark (1845)
Who Shall be Greatest (1845)
My Own Story, or Autobiography of a Child (1845) (1857 William Tegg)

1846-1847
(Trans) H C Andersen : Wonderful Stories for Children (1846)
(Trans) T Thyrnau : The Citizen of Prague (1846)
(Trans) F Bremer : A Diary, the H. Family (1846)
(Trans) F Bremer : The Home, or Life in Sweden (1846)
(Trans) F Bremer : The Neighbours and Other Tales (1846)
(Trans) F Bremer : The President's Daughter, including Nina (1846)
The Heir of Wast-Waylan (1847)
Ballads and Other Poems (1847)
(Trans) H C Andersen : The True Story of My Life (1847)
(Trans) A de Lamartine : Genevieve - A Tale (1847)
(Trans) A Stifner : Pictures of Life (1847)
The Children's Year (1847 Longmans, Brown) - John Absolon

1848-1850
(Trans) F Bremer : Brothers and Sisters : A Tale of Domestic Life (1848 Colburn) - 3 vols
The Childhood of Mary Beeson (1848)
The Steadfast Gabriel (1848)
(Trans) S M von Knorring : The Peasant and His Landlord (1848)
Our Cousins in Ohio (1849)
(Trans) F Bremer : Stories of English & Foreign Life (1849)
(Trans) F Bremer : The Midnight Sun (1849)
How the Mice Got out of Trouble and Other Tales (1850)
(Trans) F Bremer : An Easter Offering (1850)

1851-1860
(Ed) Biographical Sketches of the Queens of Great Britain (1851)
The Heir of Wast Waylan (1851)
The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe (1851) - with W Howitt
The Dial of Love (1852)
(Trans) M A Goldschmidt : Jacob Bendixen, the Jew (1852)
(Trans) F Bremer : The Homes of the New World (1853)
Stories of English and Foreign Life (1853) - with W Howitt
Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons (1854 Bohn)
Birds and Flowers and Other Country Things (1855)
The Picture Book for the Young (1855)
M Howitt's Illustrated Library for the Young (1856)
(Trans) B M Bjornson : Trust and Trial (1858)
(Trans) F Bremer : Hertha (1859)
Marion's Pilgrimage : A Fire-Side Story and Other Poems (1859)
(Trans) F Bremer : Father and Daughter (1859)
A Popular History of the United States of America (1859)
Ellen More & Other Poems (nd. c1860 Darton)

1861-1865
The Blackbird, the Parrot, the Cat and Other Stories (1861)
Adventures of Jack and Harry (1861)
(Trans) F Bremer : Two Years in Switzerland and Italy (1861)
Lillieslea, or Lost and Found (1861 Routledge)
The Favourite Scholar and Other Tales (1861) - with Mrs S C Hall
Little Arthur's Letters to His Sister Mary (1861)
A Treasury of New Favourite Tales for Young People (1861)
Ruined Castles and Abbeys of Great Britain (1861, 1863) - with W Howitt
(Ed) Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons (1862)
(Trans) F Bremer : Travels in the Holy Land (1862)
The Poet's Children (1863)
(Trans) F Bremer : Greece and the Greeks (1863)
The Wye : Its Ruined Abbeys (1863) - with William Howitt
The Story of Little Christel (1863)
The Cost of Caergwyn (1864)
Stories of Stapleford (1864)
Mr Rudd's Grandchildren (1864)
The Ruined Abbeys of the Border (1865) - with William Howitt
The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire(1865) - with William Howitt
The Angel Unawares & Other Stories (c1865 Groombridge) - et al

1866-1870
Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden (1866 Jackson, Walford & Hodder, London)
- 2 vols in 1
Our Four-Footed Friends, or The History of Manor Farm (1867 London)
(Trans) J W Hacklander : Behind the Counter (Handel and Wandel) (1867)
John Oriel's Start in Life (1868)
Vignettes of American History (1869)
Pictures from Nature (1869)

1871-1880
A Pleasant Life (1871)
Birds and Flowers (1871)
Birds and Their Nests (1872)
Sketches of Natural History or Songs of Animal Life (1873 Nelson) - M Giacomelli
Natural History Stories (1875)

1881-1900
Tales for All Seasons (1881)
Tales of English Life (1881)
Mary Hewitt's Story Book (1885 C S Francis, NY)
An Autobiography (Edited by her Daughter) (1889 Isbister, London) - 2 vols
Natural History Stories (1890 Partridge)

READING
C R Woodring : Victorian Samplers - William & Mary Howitt (1952)
A Lee : Laurels and Rosemary - The Life of William & Mary Howitt (1955)