Wood Leighton: Nonsuch Classics

by Mary Botham Howitt

"Wood Leighton" is written by one of Victorian literature's most prolific authors, the writer and poet Mary Howitt.

320 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.

She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous Quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining property. Samuel had married his wife Ann in South Wales in 1796, when he was 38 and she was 32. They had four children Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne house is now known as Howitt Place. Mary Botham was educated at home, read widely, and began writing verse at a very early age.

Reviews

[Shauna · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is over 500 pages long and although it started out well I quickly became bored with both the content and style. Abandoned after 250 pages.