The New International Encyclopædia/Haweis, Mary Eliza (Joy)

HAWEIS, Mary Eliza (Joy) (?-1898). An English author, artist, and philanthropist, daughter of the genre painter T. M. Joy, born in London. She married the Rev. H. R. Haweis, was a member of the Society of Authors and of the Society of Woman Journalists, vice-president of the Maternity Society and of the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage, and superintendent of the Mercy Branch of the British Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, at the Dudley Gallery, and the British Institution, and was a successful illustrator. She wrote Chaucer for Children, Chaucer for Schools, and Tales from Chaucer; conducted a course in Chaucer in the National Home Reading Union; wrote on art, decoration, gardening, and the like; and published a novel, A Flame of Fire (1897).