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Mary Howitt

Howitt Mary - Biography, picture and poems

This page is dedicated to this great poet together with a biography, picture 
and most famous poems

Concise Biography and Picture
Mary Howitt 
Nationality - England
Lifespan - 1799-1888
Family –Father was Samuel Botham a quaker and surveyor
Education – Tutored at home 
Career - Poet, Quaker and reformer
Famous Works of Mary Howitt – The Spider and the Fly

Famous Poems 
Mary Howitt 

The Spider and the Fly 

The Clock is on the Stroke of Six 


Although Mary Howe was famous for writing the Spider and the Fly she was also reputed to have written the poem Hush a bye Baby better known now as a Nursery Rhyme for children.

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Biography, poems and picture
Mary Howitt 

This page is dedicated to this great poet together with a biography, picture and most famous poems

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