![]() ![]() ![]() Her Chaucer volumes are a mixture of scholarship and popularization. Haweis illustrated both her own books and those of her husband, and her works skilfully combined her varied interests in art, fashion, history, and literature. In addition she translated and adapted various works by Chaucer (mostly stories from the Canterbury Tales, but also some of the shorter poems), designing anthologies that were suitable for children and for adult non-scholarly readers. She published a range of books, including a suffragistic novel and several manuals on domestic decor and home management. The writer and illustrator, Mary Eliza Haweis (1848≩8), was the daughter of the painter Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812≦6), and wife to the preacher and author Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838≡901). 'Dr Furnival and Mother like the same old books': Mary Haweis and the Experience of Reading Chaucer in the Nineteenth Century Margaret Connolly, PhiN-Beiheft | Supplement 4/2009: ![]()
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