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Miscellaneous writer. Attended Friends' schools; extended his education by reading and by study of foreign languages. Early began writing verse and contributing sketches to obscure periodicals; later wrote for Chambers's, Tait's, Monthly Repository, People's Journal, and other periodicals, including spiritualist magazines. Brought out Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, 1847-1848. In the Journal, as in his writing in other periodicals and in his books, supported humanitarian causes and social reform. In 1823 published The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems, written jointly with his wife ; also collaborated with her on other works. Author of books on rural English life, books based on his stay in Germany and in Australia, historical works, works on religion, books for boys, adult fiction. Published some translations from the German; also aided his wife  Mary Howitt in translations from the Swedish. In 1865 granted Civil List pension of £140 a year "In consideration of the long and useful career of literary labour in which both he and his wife have been engaged" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List).

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Miscellaneous writer, translator. Attended Friends' schools. In 1821 married William Howitt. Like her husband, took deep interest in social reform and in humanitarian and philanthropic matters. Contributed to Chambers's, Monthly Repository, People's Journal, Ladies' Companion, Leisure Hour, Good Words, and other periodicals; contributed to annuals; for three years edited Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book. Collaborated with her husband on several works, including a history of Scandinavian literature. Wrote popular accounts of natural history, children's stories, fiction for adults; also verse, which was very popular both in England and in the U.S. Translated some of Hans Christian Andersen's books and the novels of Fredrika Bremer. According to D.N.B., wrote, edited, or translated some 110 works. In 1879 granted Civil List pension of £100 a year "In consideration of her literary services" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List).

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Writer, art student; elder daughter of William and Mary Howitt. Received part of her education in Germany, where the Howitts resided for some years to give their children the advantage of German training; studied painting in London; then, in Munich, under Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Earned some praise for her work as an artist. D. G. Rossetti thought her Gretchen at the Fountain a very good picture—"much better than I fancied she could paint" (Letters, I, 162). A criticism by Ruskin, however, so crushed her spirit that she gave up art, except for the drawings that she produced as a medium after she became a convert to spiritualism. "If only the spirits had let her alone", wrote W. M. Rossetti, "she would have drawn and painted very much better than she ever did under their inspiration" (Some Reminiscences, I, 171). Mrs. Newton Crosland recorded that Miss Howitt "was, I believe, generally acknowledged to be of a higher order of intellect than either of her parents" (Landmarks of a Literary Life, pp. 195-196). Barbara Leigh Smith, who referred to herself as "one of the cracked people of the world", considered her friend Anna Mary also one of "the cracked" (Burton, Barbara Bodichon, p. 92). In 1859 Miss Howitt married Alaric AIfred Watts.

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Schoolmaster, naturalist. B.A. Cambridge, 1852; M.A. 1855; LL.D. 1866. Before becoming student at Cambridge, had been schoolmaster in Glasgow and Liverpool. Thereafter, second master, then head master, Bristol grammar school, 1852-1860. Established and conducted private school in Clifton, 1861-1881. Devoted his leisure to microscopic research; discovered several genera and species of Rotifera; became in this branch of science "the chief authority of his time" (Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, February 1904). F.R.M.S. 1872; F.R.S. 1889. Contributed numerous articles to scientific journals. Author of The Rotifera, 1886, written with assistance of Philip Henry Gosse.

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Not identified. The writer's contribution begins with a reference to Hudson's article "Mr. Bubbs on Planetary Disturbances", April 12 1851: "Mr. Bubbs after his visit to the Sun  (as described in a former number) ... thought ... that he would take a nice quiet ride in the moon .... " The Office Book indicates some preliminary confusion as to the authorship of the two items. "Mr. Bubs on Planetary Disturbances" is recorded as by C. T. Hughes, the "Hughes" being in part blotted and overwritten; the name "Hudson" is written, clearly, above the overwritten name. For "Mr. Bubb's Visit to the Moon" the name "Hughes" is preceded by an overwritten name, the first letter of which is "R." Payment is marked "Handed by W.H.W."

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Periodical contributor, writer of stories and verse for children. Contributed to New Monthly, Little Folks, Newbery House Magazine, and other periodicals. Nine of her poems included in Home Thoughts and Home Scenes, 1865, a collection of poems for children. In 1864 submitted to Chapman & Hall a novel that was rejected by Meredith as the publishers' reader; also a second novel so rejected (Stevenson, Ordeal of George Meredith, pp. 153-154). Author of Tales Easy and Small for the Youngest of All, Maud's Doll and Her Walk in Picture and Talk, Insect Ways on Summer Days, and other children's books, some of them several times reprinted. Her Old Welsh Knee Songs, Lullabies, Frolic Rhymes, and Other Pastime Verse. Now First Collected and Issued in English Form was published in Caernarvon by Welsh National Press Co., 1894; 2nd ed. same year.

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Radical journalist, famous as co-founder of The Examiner (1808) and libeller of the Prince of Wales (1813), but also as a talented Romantic essayist, poet, and prolific founder of literary journals, in which capacities he became well-known to Dickens.  By the late 1820s Hunt had moderated his Radical zeal and his Romantic enthusiasm was carefully tailored for the middle classes.  His essays contributed to the True Sun during Dickens's employment there, published under the signature of 'The Townsman'(1833-1834), show him posing as a connoisseur of the London streets, and expounding what he called his 'Townosophy' of aesthetic responses to the city.  In his 'Streets of London' sketches (Leigh Hunt's London Journal, 1834-1835), Hunt returned to the theme, proposing 'to go through London, quarter by quarter', noting as many associations of the city's past as possible. These sketches were collected as The Town (1848), a copy of which was in Dickens's library at his death.  Even in the 1830s, Dickens was an enthusiastic reader of Hunt, praising his 'faith in all beautiful and excellent things', and humanitarian sentiments, in a letter of July 1838 (Pilgrim Letters I, p. 414), and taking editions of Hunt's Indicator (1819-1821) and Companion (1828) journals with him to Petersham in 1839, as holiday reading. In 1847, Hunt's perennial financial difficulties were partly solved by a Civil List pension of £200, but not before Dickens had decided to organise two theatrical benefits in his behalf. In Dickens's fertile imagination, however, Hunt's charming naïveté of disposition and avowed eschewal of money matters later became transformed into something more sinister in the character of Skimpole in Bleak House (BH 6 et seq.).  The parody caused Hunt much distress, which Dickens's later retractions and apologies, culminating in the article 'Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance' (AYR, 24 December 1859), never successfully assuaged (Forster Life 6.7).    

John Drew © Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Scientist, writer on science. E.R.S. Attended school in Plymouth and in Penzance; studied medicine in London; acquired some knowledge of practical chemistry. Devoted himself to scientific research, particularly on chemical influence of solar rays and on electrical phenomena in mineral veins. Keeper of Mining Records, 1845-1883; during greater part of that time compiled Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom, issued annually as a Blue Book. For some years lecturer on mechanical science and experimental physics, Royal School of Mines. Contributed largely to scientific journals; for many years wrote scientific columns in Athenaeum; contributed to Art Journal, also to general periodicals. Brought out three revised and enlarged editions of Andrew Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines. Author of A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, 1841; Researches on Light, 1844; Elementary Physics, 1851; British Mining, 1884; and many other works.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Journalist. Educated himself largely by wide reading. Worked as printer's boy, also as clerk to a barrister, through whom he obtained a connection with a newspaper. Meanwhile studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital. M.R.C.S. 1840. Established Medical Times, 1839; forced by financial or other difficulties to relinquish the periodical. Was for a year medical officer to a poor-law union in Norfolk; thereafter returned to London. Subeditor, then editor, of Pictorial Times. Brought out Hunt's London Journal, 1844. On establishment of Daily News, was engaged as provincial editor of the periodical; editor, 1851 to his death. Author of The Rhine: Its Scenery and Historical & Legendary Associations, 1845, dedicated by special permission to Queen Victoria; The Fourth Estate: Contributions towards a History of Newspapers, 1850, his only important writing.

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Physician, writer. M.B. King's College, London, 1842; M.D. University of London, 1844. M.R.C.S. 1842. On completion of his medical training, settled in Liverpool; there, was lecturer to Royal Infirmary School of Medicine; house surgeon, then physician, to Royal Infirmary; attached also to Fever Hospital and Workhouse Infirmary. Retired from practice, 1871. Published works on medicine and hygiene. Contributed to Proceedings of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. Read widely. Came to hold idea that phallic worship was key to all mythology. Propounded the idea in various papers and in Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, 1868-1869; Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism, 1869; Ancient Faiths and Modern, 1876.

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Not identified. In 1880, W. lrwin, Esq., submitted to A.Y.R. some papers that Charles Dickens, Jr., did not find suited to the requirements of the periodical. In his letter of rejection, Aug. 23, Dickens stated that he was returning the papers (subject not mentioned) "together with Mr. Wills's letters" (A.Y.R. Letter-Book). The reference to Wills may indicate that W. Irwin had had some association with Wills during Wills's subeditorship of H.W. or A.Y.R.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Polish advocate, author, politician. Born in Nowogrodek. Took part in Polish uprising of 1830-1831; on defeat of the insurrection went into exile in England; remained there until 1857. In London, associated with Prince Adam Czartoryski's circle. Member of the London Literary Association of the Friends of Poland (of which Dickens was for a time a member). Served for more than twenty years as deputy paymaster to Polish refugees receiving relief from British Government; in 1855 appointed chief paymaster of Polish division of the Cossacks of the Sultan in the British service. Died in Nowogrodek. Privately printed, London, 1853, a collection of his political articles contributed to a London Polish newspaper. Author of Panorama, 1852, a poem; Powieść czasu mojego czyli przygody litewskie [The story of my time, or Lithuanian adventures], privately printed (anon.), London, 1854 (Jackowski's authorship at first disputed, thereafter established).

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Novelist. Contributed fiction to Hogg's Instructor, Titan, Chambers's, Fraser's; a poem to A Welcome, 1863. Published Ethel: or, The Double Error, 1854; Not an Angel, 1863; A Girl's Romance, 1867; and four other works of fiction (some had originally appeared in periodicals).

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Novelist. Born in Jamaica, of Scottish parentage. Was talented in drawing and singing. In 1832. married Charles Jenkin, midshipman, afterwards captain R.N. The Jenkins lived at various times in England—where their son Fleeming was born; in Scotland, and on the Continent. Mrs. Jenkin became friend of Agostino and Giovanni Ruffini; was the original of the English girl Lucy in the latter's Doctor Antonio (Corrigan, "Giovanni Ruffini's Letters to Vernon Lee", English Miscellany, 1962, p. 231). During a residence in Manchester, became acquainted with the Gaskells; though Mrs. GaskeIl regarded Mrs. Jenkin merely as an "acquaintance", she later wrote that she "had quite a reflected lustre" from the fact that she could say to admirers of Cousin Stella "that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress" (Letters of Mrs Gaskell, No. 455).

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Journalist. Received what he described as "a common Scottish provincial education" (Autobiography, IV, 377); early had literary ambitions. About 1805, began his long and industrious journalistic career, during which, as reporter, contributor, editor, and proprietor, was connected with numerous publications. Longest service was as editor, 1817-1850, of Literary Gazette—the periodical that stood during the 1820s as critical arbiter in British literary world. Forced by financial and other difficulties to terminate connection with Gazette; thereafter continued to contribute to periodicals, e.g., Fraser's, the Gentleman's Magazine, Leisure Hour, Notes & Queries. Edited and wrote nearly whole of National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1834; author of Men I Have Known, 1866, and other works. Member of many societies and clubs; one of founders of Royal Society of Literature. In 1853 granted Civil List pension of £100 a year "In consideration of his services to literature for many years, and his distressed circumstances at an advanced period of life" (ColIes, Literature and the Pension List).

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Journalist and author; eldest son of Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857). Attended school in England and in France; studied to become an artist; turned to journalism. After 1855, spent much time in France; knew Gustave Dore and Napoleon III. Wrote for his father's Weekly Newspaper. Contributed to Illustrated London News, Athenaeum, Welcome Guest, Once a Week, the Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals. From 1857 to time of his death was editor of Lloyd's Weekly. Author of comedies, novels, books on gastronomy; books on French society, institutions, politics; a life of his father, one of Napoleon Ill, and one of George Cruikshank. Wrote letter-press to Doré's London. A Pilgrimage, 1872; at time of his death, engaged on life of Doré. Edited works of his father, The Final Reliques of Father Prout, poetical works of Laman Blanchard.

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Novelist. Educated at a young ladies' boarding school; then received some instruction in languages and drawing. Lived for many years in Manchester. Contributed to Manchester papers, to Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine; at least one article to the Westminster Review. One of her novels serialized in Manchester Examiner and Times, one in Ladies' Companion; contributed "Mediaeval Sketches" to Victoria Regia. For almost thirty years, reviewer for Athenaeum; publisher's reader for Hurst and Blackett, and, for some fifteen years, for Bentley's. Gettmann, A Victorian Publisher, quotes many of her incisive, outspoken judgments on MSS submitted to Bentley's. Author of Zoe, 1845, which shocked many readers but was very popular in the circulating libraries; The Half-Sisters, 1848; The Sorrows of Gentility, 1856, dedicated to John Forster; and three other novels; also two children's books. In 1874 granted Civil List pension of £40 a year "In consideration of her services to literature" (Colles, Literature and the Pension List). Remembered chiefly for her friendship with the Carlyles; Mrs. Carlyle, writing in 1854, called her "the most intimate friend I have in the world" (Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Froude, II, 246).

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Novelist; daughter of a justice of the peace, Bath. Contributed to Hogg's Instructor, Chambers's, Blackwood's, Cornhill, and other periodicals. Author of fourteen works of fiction, e.g., Mr. Arle, 1856; Caste, 1857; Bond and Free, 1860; Safely Married, 1874. Edited The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell, 1878.

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Not identified. According to his article, the contributor was an Englishman "for some time domesticated in the village of Betela on the Lebanon"; resided, with his wife, "in that portion of the village belonging to the younger branch of sheiks"; in his article tells of the customs and beliefs of the Druses inhabiting the village. Payment recorded as "Advanced by W.H.W".

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Novelist and biographer. Born in Ireland, but lived when young mainly in France. Despite "her continental education", stated the Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, had "sound and healthy" tone in her writings. Contributed stories and sketches to People's Journal, Eliza Cook's Journal, Ladies' Companion, and other periodicals; reviewed books on French literature and history for Athenaeum. Was one of contributors to Victoria Regia. Author of Madeleine, 1848; Nathalie, 1850; Adele, 1858; and other works of fiction. Had the reputation, according to Percy Fitzgerald, of being "a very 'respectable' writer". "I well recall", he wrote, "when it was correct to send to the libraries for her last novel, whose merits were discussed at dinner parties" (Memories of Charles Dickens, p. 276). Author of Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century, English Women of Letters, and other biographical compilations; also A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies.

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