Harriet Anne Smart

[6][7] Her works were published under the names Harriet Smart and H. A. Callow.

[12] She studied painting with the artist William Callow, and married him in 1846.

In his autobiography, William Callow described his wife as “an excellent pianist and vocalist and.

a good linguist.” She started a school in Buckingshamshire during the 1850s to teach the local laborers how to read, and also raised money to rebuild a church nearby in the village of Great Missenden.

Sir William Jenner treated her unsuccessfully during her final illness in 1883.