Text: N. P. Willis (?), Review of Mary Howitt, My Own Story, Weekly Mirror (New York), February 22, 1845, vol. 1, no. 20, p. 315, col. 3

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MY OWN STORY; or the auto-biography of a Child. By Mary Howitt, New York. D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia, George S. Appleton.

In reading through Mary Howitt's Tales for the People and their children as they have successively appeared — our minds have often been led to ponder upon the diversity of materials and character which size has embodied and the forcible truthfulness in which she has arrayed, her living examples of virtue and waywardness. “My Own Story,” being the memorial of her own juvenile course and impressions, contains some of the same vivid pictures and portraits, and, unfolds the character of the country, and, of the women and the times some forty years ago with great fidelity. Mothers will be fitly engaged in first reading Mary Howitt's story, and then they should give it to their girls.