Record ID:
35209600 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50029228
Heading:
Birth:
  • 17921218
  • Heanor (England)
Death:
  • 18790303
  • Rome (Italy)
Occupations:
  • Authors Poets
Notes:
  • William and Mary Howitt visited Victoria in 1852-1853.
  • Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 9 October 2014 (William Howitt, writer, poet; born 18 December 1792 in Heanor, Derbyshire; died 3 March 1879, Rome, Italy; husband of author Mary Botham Howitt; launched his own short-lived weekly, Howitt's Journal; contributed to other periodicals)
  • Wikipedia 20 May 2021: Alfred William Howitt (Alfred William Howitt CMG, (17 April 1830 – 7 March 1908), also known by author abbreviation A.W. Howitt, was an Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist. He was known for leading the Victorian Relief Expedition, which set out to establish the fate of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. Howitt was born in Nottingham, England, the son of authors William Howitt and Mary Botham.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_William_Howitt
Local system number:
  • 000000210634
  • abv00211081
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX20223
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC Uk UPB VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc