| LC control no. | n 50035265 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Haweis, Mary Eliza, 1848-1898 |
| Variant(s) | Haweis, Mary Eliza (Joy), 1852-1898 Haweis, Hugh Reginald, Mrs., 1852-1898 Haweis, H. R., Mrs. Haweis, Eliza Haweis, Mrs. |
| Birth date | 1848-02-21 |
| Death date | 1898-11-24 |
| Found in | Chaucer for children, 1877: t.p. (Mrs. H.R. Haweis) Beautiful houses [microform], 1882 : (Mrs. Haweis) The art of decoration, 1977: t.p. (Eliza Haweis) Braswell, Mary Flowers, 1943- . The forgotten Chaucer scholarship of Mary Eliza Haweis (1848-98) Wikepedia search 2016-02-03: ("Mary Eliza Haweis, née Joy (21 February 1848, London - 24 November 1898, Bath, Somerset), was an English author of books and essays, particularly for women, a scholar of Chaucer, illustrator and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Thomas Musgrave Joy, wife of the Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis and mother of painter Stephen Haweis") Oxford dictionary of national biography (online search 2016-02-03): ("Haweis, [née Joy], Mary Eliza (1848-1898), writer and illustrator, was born on 21 February 1848 in London, the elder daughter of Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812-1866), genre and portrait painter, and Eliza Rohde Joy, née Spratt. Mary Eliza . . . in later life . . . illustrated both her own books and those of her husband, Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-1903), whom she married on 30 November 1867 . . . . [She] adopted many philanthropic causes, including women's suffrage . . . . [Her] knowledge of art and literature can be seen in the range of her published books. The first, Chaucer for children: a golden key . . . combined both interests;; aiming at a historically accurate representation of medieval costume and furniture, it was meticulously illustrated with woodcuts and colour plates whose details were drawn from medieval manuscripts. . . . Her knowledge of the history of fashion clearly informed her series of publications on domestic decor . . . . Her . . .Chaucer for schools (1881; 2nd ed 1899) . . . led her to her own modernized translations of Chaucer's verse, an extended introduction and critical apparatus. . . . Further attempts to popularize Chaucer . . . in two more ephemeral publications: Chaucer's beads: a birthday book, diary and concordance of Chaucer's proverbs or soothsaws, a collection of Chaucer's pithy sayings with glosses and suggested modern equivalents . . . ; and Tales from Chaucer . . . which included paraphrases of ten of the Canturbury tales, mostly composed by herself, with selections of original verse. . . . Her last publication, the novel, A flame of fire (1897), reflects her strong support for the women's franchise movement") |
| Not found in | Biography and genealogy master index (online search 2016-02-03): (Mary Eliza Haweis (1852-1898) 2 sources cited (Biography index . . . volume 8: September, 1967-August 1970, New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1971; Women novelists, 1891-1920. An index to biographical and autobiographical sources. By Doris Robinson. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984) |
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