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Mary Howitt, the Quaker writer of the poem " The Spider and the Fly ", lived in Uttoxeter for a long period of her life.
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Many of her works had been translated into English by the noted poet and author Mary Howitt.
as The home ; or, family cares and family joys by Mary Howitt in 1850 ( reprinted in 1978 )
by Mary Howitt as The neighbours: a story of every-day life ; in two volumes, 1842
by Mary Howitt as The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, vol.
Mary, Queen of Scots was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Vanessa Redgrave ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ( Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt ), Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound ( Bob Jones, John Aldred ).
* The Desolation of Eyam by William and Mary Howitt, London, 1827, reissued by Kessinger Publishing, 2008
His portrait was painted in 1849 by the English artist Anna Mary Howitt.
William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a long literary career, the first of their joint productions being The Forest Minstrels and other Poems ( 1821 ).
Mary Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika Bremer and many of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen.
In 1880 Mary Howitt had a house built for her ( which is still standing ) in the spa town of Meran in South Tyrol ( then part of Austria ) and from then on divided her time between Rome and Meran.
Mary Howitt was much affected by William's death, and in 1882 she joined the Roman Catholic Church, towards which she had been gradually moving during her connection with spiritualism.
Anna Mary Howitt was both an artist and a poet, and married Alaric Alfred Watts.
Mary Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt, in 1889.
Mary Howitt, author of over 200 books, was born here on 12 March 1799.
* The literature and romance of northern Europe, By William and Mary Howitt, Vol II, p. 207-222 Published 1852 by Colburn and Company in London ( 1852 )
* Mary Howitt ( 1799-1888 ), English poet and author
Their home became a meeting place for writers, artists and reformers-people such as George Cruickshank, William and Mary Howitt, and Ellen Wood.
Mary and Quaker
Dolley Payne was born May 20, 1768, at the New Garden Quaker settlement in North Carolina, where her parents, John Payne and Mary Coles Payne, lived briefly.
After marrying Mary Reed in a Methodist service in 1862, a Quaker encouraged him to express regret for this, to which Cannon replied, " If you mean that I am to get up in meeting and say that I am sorry I married Mary, I won't do it.
Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.
In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.
* June 1 – Mary Dyer, English Quaker ( hanged ) ( b. c. 1611 )
After Quaker service on Sunday July 9, 1848, Lucretia Coffin Mott joined Mary Ann M ' Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright ( Mott's witty sister, several months pregnant ), Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Jane Hunt for tea at the Hunt home in Waterloo.
* Mary Ann Shadd ( 1823 – 1893 ), Quaker and social reformer, married name Cary
Her mother, Mary Coles, a Quaker, had married John Payne, a non-Quaker, in 1761.
His parents were Frederick Binyon, a Quaker minister, and Mary Dockray.
The town was renamed to Ambler in 1869 in honor of Mary Johnson Ambler, a local Quaker woman who heroically assisted during The Great Train Wreck of 1856, a local train accident in which 59 people were killed instantly and dozens more died from their injuries.
Religious establishments in Evesham include All Saints Church, Evesham Baptist Church, Evesham Evangelical Church, Evesham Methodist Church, St Andrew C of E Church, St Mary & Saint Egwin Church, St Peters Church, Vale Of Evesham Christian Centre, and a Quaker meeting place.
His father Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because of their loyalist sympathies during the American War of Independence.
Ezra Cornell was a birthright Quaker, but was later disowned by the Society of Friends for marrying outside of the faith to a " world's woman ," a Methodist by the name of Mary Ann Wood.
He married, in 1821, Mary Botham, who like himself was a Quaker and a poet.
In 1660 Mary Dyer, a Quaker who had been among Hutchinson's followers, was hanged in Massachusetts for her religious beliefs.
On July 19, 1770, Dickinson married Mary Norris, known as Polly, the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia Quaker, and Speaker of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Isaac Norris.
Sam Hill was a Quaker, Mary a Catholic.
His father, Theodore Pennock, and mother Mary Louise Pennock ( née Sharp ) were of Scot-Irish and Quaker descent.
Bernard Barton was born at Carlisle on 31 January 1784, the son of Quaker parents, John Barton ( 1755 – 1789 ) and his wife, Mary, née Done ( 1752 – 1784 ).
Although Whittier was primarily a Quaker community at that time, Mary Frances was brought up within the Episcopal Church.
Mary Hallock was born November 9, 1847, in Milton, New York, of English Quaker ancestry.
He was the eldest son of Robert Murray, the Quaker merchant, and Mary Lindley Murray, whose home was on a hill in Manhattan on what today is Park Avenue and 36th Street.
Sinton was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, the third of the seven children of Walter Lyon Sinton ( 1860 – 1930 ) and his wife, Isabella Mary, née Pringle ( 1860 – 1924 ), a family of Quaker linen manufacturers from north of Ireland.
Mary and writer
* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer
* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )
His mother Irene Worley (" Lolly ") was a writer of short stories who published under the name " Mary James ".
* 1949 – Mary Gordon, American writer
* 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English writer ( d. 1855 )
* 1907 – Mary Howard aka Josephine Edgar, British writer ( d. 1991 )
Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.
* 1923 – Mary Francis Shura, American writer ( d. 1991 )
* 1954 – Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
* 1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher, secretary, and writer ( d. 1969 )
* 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American writer, founder of Christian Science ( d. 1910 )
Her father was Herbert Bradley, a lawyer and naturalist, and her mother was Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific writer of fiction and travel books.
After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.
As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.
As a young woman, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was attached to a woman named Fanny Blood.
* 1881 – Mary Gladys Webb, English writer ( d. 1927 )
* 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer ( d. 1856 )
From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.
* 1862 – Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer ( d. 1900 )
George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans ) is the most-quoted woman writer.
Mary Shelley wrote a number of science fiction novels including Frankenstein, and is treated as a major Romantic writer.
* Mary Wollstonecraft ( 1759 – 1797 ) British writer, and pioneer feminist.
* Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer and feminist
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