Journalist, translator. Began journalistic career as editor of a Preston newspaper. Thereafter, 1843-63, edited the Critic, a London literary journal. Contributed to the Field, the Queen, and other periodicals. Projected Selected Series of French Literature, of which he brought out one title: Madame de Sevigne, 1853. Translated, 1857, Victor SchreIcher's Life of Handel.

Two of Lowe's H.W. articles have a connection with Preston, where Lowe began his journalistic work. "The Deseret News" details the contents of a copy of the Mormon newspaper that had come to his hands through the agency of a Mormon convert, formerly a Preston weaver; "Locked Out" describes the Preston factory workers idled by the managers' lock-out.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

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