1857 Tallangetta by William Howitt, Early Victoria, Australia Life 1stEd 2V in 1

Description: 1857 Tallangetta by William Howitt, Early Victoria, Australia Life 1stEd 2V in 1 Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Description: Tallangetta The Squatter`s Home A Story of Australian Life by William Howitt In two Volumes Two Volumes Bound in One London, Longman, 1857. First Edition. Original full leather with borders ruled in gilt. Ribbed spine with gilt ornaments, and with red title label. Marbled foreedges and end papers, octavo, 312 + 310 pages. bound in one. Presentation inscription dated 1864 on front endpaper. (Eustace B. L. Bevan to William Cuthbert on his leaving Eton) William Howitt came to Victoria in 1852 with two of his sons to try their luck at the gold fields. He returned to England in 1854. The account of his stay, Land, labour and gold (1855) is one of the best from that period. He also wrote two novels set in the colony, A boy's adventures in the wilds of Australia : or Herbert's note-book (1854) and Tallangetta, the squatter's home : a story of Australian life (1857). Both works include descriptions of life on the land and at the diggings, and feature encounters with bushrangers and Aborigines. William Howitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt was born at Heanor, Derbyshire.The family relatives still remain around this area. His parents were Quakers, and he was educated at the Friends public school at Ackworth, Yorkshire. His younger brothers were Richard and Godrey whom he helped tutor. In 1814 he published a poem on the Influence of Nature and Poetry on National Spirit. He married, in 1821, Mary Botham, who like himself was a Quaker and a poet. William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a long literary career, the first of their joint productions being The Forest Minstrels and other Poems (1821). In 1831, William Howitt produced a work resulting naturally from his habits of observation and his genuine love of nature. It was a history of the changes in the face of the outside world in the different months of the year, and was entitled The Book of the Seasons, or the Calendar of Nature (1831). His Popular History of Priestcraft (1833) won him the favour of active Liberals and the office of alderman in Nottingham, where the Howitts had made their home. They moved in 1837 to Esher, and became friends with Elizabeth Gaskell and her husband. 1838 saw publication of his Colonization and Christianity, which was later quoted approvingly by Karl Marx in Capital, Volume I. In 1840 they went to Heidelberg, primarily for the education of their children, remaining in Germany for two years. In 1841 William Howitt produced, under the pseudonym of Dr Cornelius, The Student Life of Germany, the first of a series of works on German social life and institutions. Mary Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika Bremer and many of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. With her husband she wrote in 1852 The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. In June of that year William Howitt, with two of his sons, set sail for Australia, where he spent two years in the goldfields. The results of his travels appeared in A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia (1854), Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria (1855) and Tallangetta, the Squatter's Home (1857). On his return to England Howitt had settled at Highgate and resumed his indefatigable book-making. From 1856 to 1862 he was engaged on Cassell's Illustrated History of England, and from 1861 to 1864 he and his wife worked at the Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. The Howitts had left the Society of Friends in 1847, and became interested in Spiritualism. In 1863 he published The History of the Supernatural in all Ages and Nations, and in all Churches, Christian and Pagan, demonstrating a Universal Faith. He added his own conclusions from a practical examination of the higher phenomena through a course of seven years. From 1870 onwards Howitt spent the summers in Tyrol and the winters in Rome, where he died. In 1880 Mary Howitt had a house built for her (which is still standing) in the spa town of Meran in South Tyrol (then part of Austria) and from then on divided her time between Rome and Meran. Mary Howitt was much affected by William's death, and in 1882 she joined the Roman Catholic Church, towards which she had been gradually moving during her connection with spiritualism. She died at Rome on 30 January 1888. The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature. Their son, Alfred William Howitt, made a name for himself by his explorations in Australia. Anna Mary Howitt was both an artist and a poet, and married Alaric Alfred Watts. Mary Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter, Margaret Howitt, in 1889. William Howitt wrote some fifty books, and his wife's publications, inclusive of translations, number over a hundred. CONDITION: Good- Covers and Very Good Contents. (Covers have spots, edge and corner wear, crackled and rubbed spine leather. Front board is neatly re-attached. Contents are complete, clean and intact.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items. 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