Biography of Jacqueline Howett
Jacqueline Howett was born in 1954, and educated in London, England. Her parents divorced when she was twelve years old. Her mother, Leila, a Greek lady, who worked in the London Fashion world, gave her the gift of another language. Her father, a naturalist and gifted artist who came from Kent, England met Leila while serving in the RAF in Greece. At sixteen Jacqueline Howett began her own travels of the world as a dancer, and at eighteen began writing her autobiography living at sea while married to a Greek chief officer, whose life soon came to a tragic ending, brought on by a misfortunate event at sea. London, Europe & America, became Jacqueline's playground.
Howett was one of the first women in the very early 80's to bring about AIDS AWARENESS for women, when The Terrence Higgins Trust in London was first founded in 1982. She left the world of sex, became celibate, and wrote numerous articles under a pen name in 1983, such as "The Miracle cure for AIDS is faith," and "AIDS terror enters marriage," to name a few. Then she had them copyright in the USA, and sent them out for several years to the masses throughout 1985 & 1986, with the money from her own pocket. This was still during the ignorant times of denial, when sexual promiscuity was rampant, and gays were just coming out of the closet. She was also the first woman to speak out as a commentator on a first time, all Gay radio show on AIDS in London. (Howett was the second to last radio caller, and the only woman, to those who remember that far back.) "This is just not a Gay issue, its women also!" she alerted with annoyance. Then she went on to quote some figures of how many women had died in the USA alone. She then used her art as a vehicle for twelve years before giving up the ghost, trying to reach an ignorant world, how this was not just a Gay or Black target, it was also women and found herself donating a lot of Art to AIDS auctions, with write ups in local papers. She also was somewhat controversial in her approach, as she was against AIDS medical research, saying, it was just a money maker, and that people were given AIDS shots. She basically told everyone to stay away from doctors. She wrote articles about promiscuity, but mostly about holding compassion for the victims, and spoke of Faith, the inner self, natural healing, and God or Jesus was the answer. Thereafter, Lady Diana in 1987, and the movie stars hopped on the bandwagon with compassion. The world however, although somewhat aware now, seemed to grow darker with the next era piercing their tongues and body parts, and even with the threats of death, sex didn't seem to diminish.
In fact, it grew more wild. The death roll was on the rise, yet many rumors passed along that this was also in part about population control and a new money maker in stock and shares with a cocktail pill cure on the horizon.
The changing scenery in London, from the late seventies to the mid eighties with the novelty of Arabs giving out easy money while they became educated in Oxford and Cambridge and Eaton, had followed by the left over stench in the air of the Iran war. Heavy metal bands, drugs, the AID scares and the confusing beginnings of the first computers taking over that empted the paper shelves to discs, were all part of the horrors that made her flee to North Wales where she continued to edit the novel, Cass. Again, she had to flee from there due to the Welsh politics of the time who were burning the British bought homes. Who knew? Here's a link to more about burning cottage homes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2235723.stm
She felt she was also targeted, more so for handing out in the village, AIDS Awareness articles in 1987. Since 1989, having fled North Wales, she continued her writing living in the U.S.A. After living in Florida and California, she became a US citizen in Tampa, Florida in April 1993, and there after settled in Maine for twelve years. In the late 90's, Jacqueline also held an online presence promoting authors, artist, poets and musicians via her sites called ATLinkswith and ATLinkswithPoetry, and then when the tech world changed, she returned to Florida to live in 2002.
"Amorphous Angelic" selected poems are now available in libraries available online as an E-book. It was written from 1983-1985 in London, England during her own rebirth, while in a celibate/hermit repose. They remain her most memorable poems. It was a time Howett seriously began to dedicate herself to her life’s works in a mature form, writing in her London sanctuary plays, poetry, novels, reading the classics, and dabbling with musical instruments and listening to classical music for a period after placing rock n roll on hold. It was also a time of reconnecting to her creative spirit within a state of celibacy that came through a very drastic death/rebirth experience, and is vaguely explained in her novel CASS, a work in process.
Some of Jacqueline’s early reading Influences came from biographies, and many of the classics. Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Persian and Middle Eastern Poets, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Renault, Oscar Wilde, Euripides, Henrick Ibsen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Shakespeare, Homer, Steinbeck, William Golding, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, John Milton, Shelly, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Daphne Dumaurier, John Paul Sartre, Hermann Hesse, E.M. Forster, Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Sands, Sylvia Plath, Edga Allan Poe, Chaucer, John Milton, Arthur Miller, Chekhov, Aeschylus, Euripides and Faulkner are to mention just a few.
A new process in her own metamorphosis began her transition to terra firma, with her letting go of her old emotional ties to Europe, and to finally start living in more awareness the American life after completing her novels, The Greek Seaman and Cass. Both these novels took place in Europe, and it seems strange to say, how she never realized to her fullest that she was living in America while writing them. Her third and forth major novels she began writing in Florida, and are now in first draft and take place in America.
Her poems from the book Amorphous Angelic were dedicated to her father, who visited her in America in the year 2000, who she had not seen in twenty years.
Jacqueline was inspired to compile Amorphous Angelic for publishing while living in Maine, after her Greek born Mother died in 1996.
More recently Jacqueline published her debut novel The Greek Seaman at Amazon kindle and Smashwords, a micro fiction piece in Alien Skin magazine and in Long Story Short Magazine in September, October, November 2010, and February 2011. and a short story titled, The Secret Passion of Twins. Her poetry has also appeared in AAA (art villa) and The Taj Mahal anthology. Her second novel Cass, has reverted back to a WIP. There are several more poetry books and novels she has written, along with her flash, varied shorts and essays, and are now in the editing stages. You can view more of Jacqueline's work on her blog. She is also on Facebook, Amazon, Smashwords, Authors Den, and Goodreads, among others.
For further news or updates, click on blog link in the side bar to your left or on one of the links below.
Brief Art Bio:
Jacqueline Howett, was born in London, England but became a US citizen. She lived in Maine for twelve years and now resides in Florida. Her art has appeared in the Art Cellar Exchange, Manhattan Arts International Magazine, Art Now, and the International and New York Gallery Guide. She has appeared in group and solo exhibits such as the Danforth Gallery in Portland, Maine and The Oreno Print Museum, New York. The Herald Tribune in Biddeford, Maine did a feature article when her work was exhibited at The Saco Museum of Art. Starbucks gave her a solo exhibit. "Umbrella," a journal of poetry and kindred prose featured her artwork on their Spring 2008 cover, and her work is in private collections. She has also sold at silent auctions, and is featured on various art websites. She has also sold her art on greeting cards in local book/gift stores. Prints of some her art can now be purchased at Fine Art America. Details are at her art blog or blog.
More updates soon to come via her blog, or mentioned on Twitter and Art page at Facebook.
To view more of Jacqueline howett's brief Art bio, check out the Art link in the side bar, thanks, or click the link below.
http://authorjacquelinehowett.weebly.com/art.html
Note: If you arrived at my blog from the Wikidpedia link, that was put up in March 2013, you might want to read my side of the story, concerning my viral mishap at the link below. There you'll find facts that were not mentioned online on how it all came about. You'll soon realise how at the on set, my issue with Big Al, had nothing to do with a spelling matter. For the moment, I'm not sure who might have placed "The Greek Seaman" in the Wikipedia.
http://jacquelinehowett.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-retrospect.html
Have a wonderful week! I appreciate your stopping by. Jacqueline
Howett was one of the first women in the very early 80's to bring about AIDS AWARENESS for women, when The Terrence Higgins Trust in London was first founded in 1982. She left the world of sex, became celibate, and wrote numerous articles under a pen name in 1983, such as "The Miracle cure for AIDS is faith," and "AIDS terror enters marriage," to name a few. Then she had them copyright in the USA, and sent them out for several years to the masses throughout 1985 & 1986, with the money from her own pocket. This was still during the ignorant times of denial, when sexual promiscuity was rampant, and gays were just coming out of the closet. She was also the first woman to speak out as a commentator on a first time, all Gay radio show on AIDS in London. (Howett was the second to last radio caller, and the only woman, to those who remember that far back.) "This is just not a Gay issue, its women also!" she alerted with annoyance. Then she went on to quote some figures of how many women had died in the USA alone. She then used her art as a vehicle for twelve years before giving up the ghost, trying to reach an ignorant world, how this was not just a Gay or Black target, it was also women and found herself donating a lot of Art to AIDS auctions, with write ups in local papers. She also was somewhat controversial in her approach, as she was against AIDS medical research, saying, it was just a money maker, and that people were given AIDS shots. She basically told everyone to stay away from doctors. She wrote articles about promiscuity, but mostly about holding compassion for the victims, and spoke of Faith, the inner self, natural healing, and God or Jesus was the answer. Thereafter, Lady Diana in 1987, and the movie stars hopped on the bandwagon with compassion. The world however, although somewhat aware now, seemed to grow darker with the next era piercing their tongues and body parts, and even with the threats of death, sex didn't seem to diminish.
In fact, it grew more wild. The death roll was on the rise, yet many rumors passed along that this was also in part about population control and a new money maker in stock and shares with a cocktail pill cure on the horizon.
The changing scenery in London, from the late seventies to the mid eighties with the novelty of Arabs giving out easy money while they became educated in Oxford and Cambridge and Eaton, had followed by the left over stench in the air of the Iran war. Heavy metal bands, drugs, the AID scares and the confusing beginnings of the first computers taking over that empted the paper shelves to discs, were all part of the horrors that made her flee to North Wales where she continued to edit the novel, Cass. Again, she had to flee from there due to the Welsh politics of the time who were burning the British bought homes. Who knew? Here's a link to more about burning cottage homes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2235723.stm
She felt she was also targeted, more so for handing out in the village, AIDS Awareness articles in 1987. Since 1989, having fled North Wales, she continued her writing living in the U.S.A. After living in Florida and California, she became a US citizen in Tampa, Florida in April 1993, and there after settled in Maine for twelve years. In the late 90's, Jacqueline also held an online presence promoting authors, artist, poets and musicians via her sites called ATLinkswith and ATLinkswithPoetry, and then when the tech world changed, she returned to Florida to live in 2002.
"Amorphous Angelic" selected poems are now available in libraries available online as an E-book. It was written from 1983-1985 in London, England during her own rebirth, while in a celibate/hermit repose. They remain her most memorable poems. It was a time Howett seriously began to dedicate herself to her life’s works in a mature form, writing in her London sanctuary plays, poetry, novels, reading the classics, and dabbling with musical instruments and listening to classical music for a period after placing rock n roll on hold. It was also a time of reconnecting to her creative spirit within a state of celibacy that came through a very drastic death/rebirth experience, and is vaguely explained in her novel CASS, a work in process.
Some of Jacqueline’s early reading Influences came from biographies, and many of the classics. Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Persian and Middle Eastern Poets, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Renault, Oscar Wilde, Euripides, Henrick Ibsen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Shakespeare, Homer, Steinbeck, William Golding, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, John Milton, Shelly, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Daphne Dumaurier, John Paul Sartre, Hermann Hesse, E.M. Forster, Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Sands, Sylvia Plath, Edga Allan Poe, Chaucer, John Milton, Arthur Miller, Chekhov, Aeschylus, Euripides and Faulkner are to mention just a few.
A new process in her own metamorphosis began her transition to terra firma, with her letting go of her old emotional ties to Europe, and to finally start living in more awareness the American life after completing her novels, The Greek Seaman and Cass. Both these novels took place in Europe, and it seems strange to say, how she never realized to her fullest that she was living in America while writing them. Her third and forth major novels she began writing in Florida, and are now in first draft and take place in America.
Her poems from the book Amorphous Angelic were dedicated to her father, who visited her in America in the year 2000, who she had not seen in twenty years.
Jacqueline was inspired to compile Amorphous Angelic for publishing while living in Maine, after her Greek born Mother died in 1996.
More recently Jacqueline published her debut novel The Greek Seaman at Amazon kindle and Smashwords, a micro fiction piece in Alien Skin magazine and in Long Story Short Magazine in September, October, November 2010, and February 2011. and a short story titled, The Secret Passion of Twins. Her poetry has also appeared in AAA (art villa) and The Taj Mahal anthology. Her second novel Cass, has reverted back to a WIP. There are several more poetry books and novels she has written, along with her flash, varied shorts and essays, and are now in the editing stages. You can view more of Jacqueline's work on her blog. She is also on Facebook, Amazon, Smashwords, Authors Den, and Goodreads, among others.
For further news or updates, click on blog link in the side bar to your left or on one of the links below.
Brief Art Bio:
Jacqueline Howett, was born in London, England but became a US citizen. She lived in Maine for twelve years and now resides in Florida. Her art has appeared in the Art Cellar Exchange, Manhattan Arts International Magazine, Art Now, and the International and New York Gallery Guide. She has appeared in group and solo exhibits such as the Danforth Gallery in Portland, Maine and The Oreno Print Museum, New York. The Herald Tribune in Biddeford, Maine did a feature article when her work was exhibited at The Saco Museum of Art. Starbucks gave her a solo exhibit. "Umbrella," a journal of poetry and kindred prose featured her artwork on their Spring 2008 cover, and her work is in private collections. She has also sold at silent auctions, and is featured on various art websites. She has also sold her art on greeting cards in local book/gift stores. Prints of some her art can now be purchased at Fine Art America. Details are at her art blog or blog.
More updates soon to come via her blog, or mentioned on Twitter and Art page at Facebook.
To view more of Jacqueline howett's brief Art bio, check out the Art link in the side bar, thanks, or click the link below.
http://authorjacquelinehowett.weebly.com/art.html
Note: If you arrived at my blog from the Wikidpedia link, that was put up in March 2013, you might want to read my side of the story, concerning my viral mishap at the link below. There you'll find facts that were not mentioned online on how it all came about. You'll soon realise how at the on set, my issue with Big Al, had nothing to do with a spelling matter. For the moment, I'm not sure who might have placed "The Greek Seaman" in the Wikipedia.
http://jacquelinehowett.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-retrospect.html
Have a wonderful week! I appreciate your stopping by. Jacqueline