Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt (born Mary Botham March 12, 1799 in Coleford , Forest of Dean (District) in Gloucestershire ; died January 30, 1888 in Rome ) was an English writer.
Life
Mary Botham married the Quaker William Howitt in 1821 . Both wrote poems and other articles for magazines and calendars, which they published jointly in collective editions: The forest minstrel (1823) and The desolation of Eyam (1827), followed by other collaborative work, such as Stories of English and foreign life , 1853.
They stayed in Heidelberg from 1840 to 1842 . During this time Mary began to translate and adapt into English from French , German , Danish and Swedish : various fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen ; Works by: Alphonse de Lamartine , Geneviève, histoire d'une servante ; Emilie Flygare-Carlén ; Sophie von Knorring ; Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson ; Meïr Aron Goldschmidt , Jacob Bendixen. A Jew ; from German: Christoph von Schmid ; Adalbert Stifter (three stories); Henriette Paalzow , Thomas Thyrnau ; Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer , Trade and Change ; in particular the works of the Swedish women's rights activist Fredrika Bremer (18 translations), for which she received an order from the Swedish Academy . She contributed the greater part to the jointly created work The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe (1852) .
The collection of fables written by Wilhelm Hey , which appeared in Germany in 1833 with the illustrations by Otto Speckter, was published in London in 1844, where it was known as "Otto Speckter's Fable Book".
In 1843 the family moved to London. William went to Australia with the gold rush in 1852 with the sons Alfred William and Herbert Charlton . Alfred Howitt stayed there and excelled in national development and as an ethnologist , William returned in 1854 with the material for a number of books. Meanwhile, Mary had moved to Highgate with daughters Margaret and Anna Mary .
William published a work on spiritism in 1863 , forfeiting the reputation they both had enjoyed. From 1871 they stayed in Dietenheim near Bruneck in summer and in Rome in winter . William died in Rome on March 3, 1879. On May 26, 1880, Mary Howitt laid the foundation stone in Obermais for a villa designed by the architect Cölestin Recla : "We should have a little home of our own 'in the holy land of Tyrol' ... which we shall call 'Marienruhe'" ". In 1882 she converted to Catholicism and was baptized in the chapel of Rametz Castle . She died in 1888 while staying in Rome for winter. For her funeral on Cimitero acattolico , a papal dispensation was required.
The spider and the fly
In 1865, Mary Howitt's moralizing poem, first published in 1829, was already part of popular children's literature in England. Lewis Carroll parodied it in his work Alice in Wonderland by taking up the style in the "lobster quadrille":
Howitt:
- "Will you walk into my parlor?" Said the Spider to the Fly.
Carroll:
- "Will you walk a little faster?" Said a whiting to a snail.
... and Howitt's moral for the childish audience: "but she ne'er came out again!"
Works
- Of the approximately one hundred poetic works, none has been translated into German. "The Spider and the Fly" is still known in English today.
- Mary Howitt; of autobiography . Edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt. Houghton Mifflin 1889. Volume 1 . Volume 2 . Reprint New York: AMS Pr., 1973
- The child's picture and verse book , commonly known as Otto Speckter's Fable Book , in the German original language and in French. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844.
- The Dusseldorf artist's album. - Düsseldorf: Arnz, 1854. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Dubbing
- David Del Tredici , The Spider and The Fly for high soprano, high baritone, and orchestra (1998) DNB
Daughters
Anna Mary Howitt
The daughter Anna Mary Howitt (1824 - 23 July 1884 in Dietenheim (Bruneck) ) studied painting under Wilhelm von Kaulbach in Munich ; her letters from Munich were first published in 1853. The colored representation of daily life in Munich as well as many events such as the Oktoberfest, Passion Play in Oberammergau, the inauguration of Bavaria, etc., which the author witnessed personally, give an insight into life in Munich from 1850 to 1852.
- Anna Mary Howitt, Magnificent City of Art Munich. Letters from an English art student 1850-1852 Edited, translated and commented on by Cornelia Oelwein, Dachau: Verl.-Anst. Bayerland, 2002, first 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) posthumously published her mother's autobiography and wrote monographs on Friedrich Overbeck and Fredrika Bremer.
- Friedrich Overbeck his life and work; based on his letters and other documents from the handwritten estate , Freiburg i. E.g .: Herder 1886
- Volume 1789–1833 ( digitized version )
- Volume 1833–1869 ( digitized version )
literature
- Amice Lee: Laurels and Rosemary. The Life of William & Mary Howitt . Oxford University Press, London et al. 1955.
- Linda H. Peterson: Collaborative Life Writing as Ideology. The Auto / biographies of Mary Howitt and Her Family. In: Cynthia Huff (Ed.): Women's life writing and imagined communities . Routledge, London et al. 2005, ISBN 0-415-37221-6 , ( Prose studies Special Issue).
- Carl R. Woodring: Victorian Samplers. William & Mary Howitt . University of Kansas Press, Lawrence KS 1952.
Web links
- Literature by and about Mary Howitt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Mary Howitt in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Mary Howitt , Catalog of Works at books and writers
- Obituary in the Burggräfler of February 18, 1888
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fifty Fables for Children. Drawn in pictures by Otto Speckter. Along with a serious appendix, Hamburg, 1833
- ↑ Autobiography, pp. 301f
- ^ Rowena Edlin-White: William and Mary Howitt: A Literary Marriage , at Thoroton Society
- ↑ For the motif spider (man) and fly (woman) in the fine arts for adults, see also: Eugen von Blaas (1843–1932), genre picture The Spider and the Fly, 1889
- ↑ Anna Mary Howitt at DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howitt, Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coleford |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1888 |
| Place of death | Rome |