Mary Martha Sherwood

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Standard Name: Sherwood, Mary Martha
Birth Name: Mary Martha Butt
Married Name: Mary Martha Sherwood
Indexed Name: Mrs Sherwood
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of The Traditions
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire message, remained current for several generations and were vividly remembered by many impressionable children, some of whom grew up to be writers. Her former high repute as a children's writer is at least as well deserved for her autobiography and diary, and her biographer Naomi Royde-Smith seriously admired some of her novels.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
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She also wrote poems. The British Library lacks many of her books; the holdings of Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian are better.
Head-and-shoulders print of Mary Martha Sherwood in profile by M. Maskall. She rests her head on a hand. Only her face and her frilled and ribboned cap are rendered in detail.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Joan Aiken
Next year came The Smile of the Stranger, a historical romance whose English heroine experiences not only the French Revolution (since she has been living with her father in France) but other markers...
Textual Features Clara Balfour
CB included in her collection the well-known writers Hannah More , Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Sarah Trimmer . Subjects of other sketches which also appeared separately included many of evangelical...
Education Ann Bridge
As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas.
Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan.
141
When she began regular lessons, and...
Education Frances Browne
FB 's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it.
Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon.
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From the age of seven, when she heard a sermon she did not...
Textual Production Frances Hodgson Burnett
FHB wrote The Two Little Pilgrims' Progress (whose title invokes Bunyan and perhaps adapters of Bunyan like Mary Martha Sherwood , Barbara Hofland , and Charlotte Maria Tucker ), about the visit of orphan twins...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Butts
His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Callcott
MC told her friend Caroline Fox that she would write this book from memory without consulting sources. It may be relevant to her choice of title that Mary Martha Sherwood had published a children's book...
Literary responses Hester Mulso Chapone
Her brother John wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Recently Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Publishing Camilla Crosland
Having aimed her earliest published book at young readers, CC continued in this vein: her last publication for the young appeared more than three decades after her first. Her works for children include The Young...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ketaki Kushari Dyson
She considers a wide range of journalists and memoirists, particularly the lesser-known writers, embarking on a recuperative effort. Her purpose in illuminating the literary, historical, and sociological significance of the journals and memoirs was to...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Fielding
The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips , who praised it in her Memoirs.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
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Jane Collier in her commonplace-book not only noted that Mrs Teachum has the Swift ian...
Intertextuality and Influence Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Mary Hamilton
The first, Lines, On Seeing Again, After An Interval of Some Years, A Likeness of — is prefaced by an extract from Mary Martha Sherwood 's The Nun. The excerpt is meant to prepare...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

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By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...

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By May 1619

The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.

About 1766: Printer and engraver John Spilsbury perfected...

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About 1766

Printer and engraver John Spilsbury perfected the dissected map which became the forerunner of the jigsaw puzzle.

Texts

Sherwood, Mary Martha, and George Baxter. Caroline Mordaunt. William Darton, 1835.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Emancipation. Houlston, 1829.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Little Henry and His Bearer. F. Houlston and Son, 1814.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Margarita. Minerva Press, 1799.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Roxobel. Houlston, 1831.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Sophia Kelly. The Golden Garland of Inestimable Delights. J. Hatchard, 1849.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Governess. F. Houlston, 1820.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The History of George Desmond. F. Houlston and Son, 1821.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The History of Little George and His Penny. F. Houlston and Son, 1816.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The History of Susan Gray. Samuel Hazard, 1802.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The History of the Fairchild Family. J. Hatchard, 1847.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Indian Pilgrim. Houlston, 1818.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Infant’s Progress. F. Houlston and Son, 1821.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Lady of the Manor. F. Houlston, 1823.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Monk. Ward and Lock, 1830.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Nun. R. B. Seeley and Burnside, and L. B. Seeley and Sons, 1833.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Re-Captured Negro. F. Houlston, 1821.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Traditions. Minerva Press, 1795.
Sherwood, Mary Martha. Victoria. J. Hatchard and Son, 1833.