# The poems of Mary Howitt

Author: Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76027

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+poems+of+Mary+Howitt+Howitt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mary Howitt was born at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, where her parents were making a temporary residence; but shortly after her birth they returned to their accustomed abode at Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, where she spent her youth. The beautiful Arcadian scenery of this part of Staffordshire was of a character to foster a deep love of the country; and is described with great accuracy in her recent prose work “Wood Leighton.” By her mother she is descended from an ancient Irish family, and also from Wood, the ill-used Irish patentee, who was ruined by the selfish malignity of Dean Swift,--from whose aspersions his character was vindicated by Sir Isaac Newton. A true statement of the whol...

## Chapters

- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/29/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/27/index.md)
- [vivid. Indeed, she describes her overwhelming astonishment and delight](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/24/index.md)
- [SCENE III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/7/index.md)
- [PART XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/23/index.md)
- [PART X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/22/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/25/index.md)
- [SCENE VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/12/index.md)
- [PART IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/21/index.md)
- [PART III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/15/index.md)
- [PART VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/18/index.md)
- [PART V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/17/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/14/index.md)
- [PART VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/20/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/13/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/16/index.md)
- [SCENE VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/10/index.md)
- [PART VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/19/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/26/index.md)
- [SCENE II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/6/index.md)
- [SCENE IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part II. 177](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/3/index.md)
- [SCENE VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/11/index.md)
- [SCENE I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/5/index.md)
- [SCENE V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part III. 149](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part XII. 121](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-poems-of-mary-howitt-76027/chapters/1/index.md)