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Mary Botham Howitt is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“A pleasing expression, in its kind, is afforded by the union in the names of the Howitts. William and Mary Howitt we heard named together for years, supposing them to be brother and sister; the equality of labors and reputation, even so, was auspicious”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“A pleasing expression, in its kind, is afforded by the union in the names of the Howitts.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Named by Fuller alongside the other Howitt as an example of literary partnership between husband and wife. No specific work is cited or inferred in this passage.
“Among the latter are both the Howitts, Bowring and Miss Martineau. The print and paper of the volume are beautiful.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Liberty Bell for 1846." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 January 1846. · 9 January 1846
“Mary and William Howitt are its main support. I saw them several times at their cheerful and elegant home.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 February 1847. · 2 February 1847
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“one who had bid me not only to 'hope on, hope ever,' but to always strive to believe in the great reward and to be impelled by the best ambition.”
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: privately printed, 1936.
Inferred Richard Fuller quotes Fuller as having 'bid' him to 'hope on, hope ever' — this is Richard recording Margaret's direct speech/exhortation to him. The phrase is the exact title of Mary Botham Howitt's 1840 book Hope on! Or, The Boyhood of Felix Law (Boston: James Munroe and Company), well known in American literary circles by 1850.