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HOWITT See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM, (1792-1899) , See also:English author, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:December 1792 at See also:Heanor, See also:Derbyshire. His parents were See also:Quakers, and he was educated at the See also:Friends' public school at Ackworth, See also:Yorkshire. In 1814 he published a poem on the " See also:Influence of Nature and See also:Poetry on See also:National Spirit." He married, in 1821, See also:Mary Botham (1799–1888), like himself a Quaker and a poet. William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a See also:long See also:literary career, the first of their See also:joint productions being The See also:Forest Minstrels and other Poems (1821). In 1831 William Howitt produced a See also:work for which his habits of observation and his genuine love of nature peculiarly fitted him. It was a See also:history of the changes in the See also:face of the out-See also:side See also:world in the different months of the See also:year, and was entitled The See also:Book of the Seasons, or the See also:Calendar of Nature (1831). His Popular History of Priestcraft (1833) won for him the favour of active Liberals and the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:alderman in See also:Nottingham, where the Howitts had made their See also:home. They removed in 1837 to See also:Esher, and in 1840 they went to See also:Heidelberg, primarily foe the See also:education of their See also:children, remaining in See also:Germany for two yetrts. In 1841 William Howitt produced, under the See also:pseudonym of " Dr See also:Cornelius," The Student See also:Life of Germany, the first of a See also:series of See also:works on See also:German social life and institutions. Mary Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika See also:Bremer and many of the stories of Hans See also:Andersen. With her See also:husband she wrote in 1852 The Literature and See also:Romance of See also:Northern See also:Europe. In See also:June of that year William Howitt; with two of his sons, set See also:sail for See also:Australia, where he spent two years in the goldfields. The results of his travels appeared in A Boy's
See also:cotton See also:mills, oil mills, rope-works, See also:iron-works and See also:engineering works. See also:Sibpur Engineering See also:College lies on the outskirts of the See also:town. There is a See also:hospital, with a See also:department for Europeans, and See also:Howrah forms a suburban See also:residence for many See also:people who have their See also:place of business in See also:Calcutta.
The See also:DISTRICT OF HOWRAH extends southwards down the right See also:bank of the See also:Hugli to the confluence of the See also:river Damodar. For See also:revenue purposes it is included within the district of Hugli Its See also:area is 510 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 850,514, showing an increase of I I % in the See also:decade. In addition to the two See also:steam tramways and the See also:East See also:Indian railway, the district is crossed by the high-level See also:canal to See also:Midnapore, which communicates with the Hugli at Ulubaria. The manufacturing See also:industries of Howrah extend beyond the See also:city into the district. One or two systems of draining See also:low-lying lands are maintained by the See also:government.
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