Also known as Mary Botham Howitt, Mary Botham
English poet, and author, editor (1799-1888)
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Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous Quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining property. Samuel had married his wife Ann in South Wales in 1796 when he was 38 and she was 32. They had four children Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne hou
Mary Howitt, född Botham 12 mars 1799, död 30 januari 1888, var en brittisk författare. Hon var från 1821 gift med författaren (1792-1879). Mary och hennes man William utgav tillsammans en rad litterära arbeten på vers och prosa, börande med The forest minstrels and other poems (1821). Mary Howitt var varmt intresserad av skandinavisk litteratur och översatte Fredrika Bremers romaner och H.C. Andersens sagor. Tillsammans med maken skrev hon även The literature and romance of Nothern Europe (2 band, 1852). Hennes självbiografi utgavs i två band av dottern 1889.
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