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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Yonge
CM's preface (dated March 1870) says that as a child she preferred the inherited books of the former generation to any moderns except Maria Edgeworth .
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan.
1: v
She mentions two imitations (by Mary Martha Sherwood
Reception Lucy Walford
After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with...
Textual Production Charlotte Maria Tucker
An anonymous publisher in Stickney, South Dakota, put out an undated modern reprint.
“The A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker) Resource”. Peter and Rachel Reynolds: Used Christian Books.
Bunyan , along with the Bible, was one of CMT 's primary literary influences. Whether or not she knew it, she...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Maria Tucker
As before, in 1857, she was influenced by the eighteenth-century writer Mary Martha Sherwood , who had introduced Indian settings to children's literature.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm.
78
Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children. Five Owls Press.
81-2
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Education Elizabeth Taylor
Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
12-13
When Betty was eleven...
Intertextuality and Influence Flora Annie Steel
The next story volume by FAS , In the Guardianship of God, appeared in 1903.
According to OCLC WorldCat, the library of the London borough of Tower Hamlets lists a copy of an...
Friends, Associates Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
She knew other distinguished writers from the previous generation too, and her friends both before and after her marriage included many in the world of literature. A couple of years after this she spent the...
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS entitled her biography of Evangelical children's writer Mary Martha SherwoodThe State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2340 (7 December 1946): 598
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
In an Author's NoteNRS tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney , Miss Edgeworth , Mrs Sherwood and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her...
Occupation Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR then returned to the St Quintin establishment, metamorphosed from a pupil into a Teacher. This was at about the time that St Quintin sold the school to pay his debts, but only to open...
Friends, Associates Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR was visited in Paris in 1820 by her old schoolfellow Mary Martha Sherwood .
Darton, F. J. Harvey, editor. The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood. Wells Gardner, Darton.
450
By this date they had in common their intensely Evangelical belief.
Textual Production Elizabeth Rigby
The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth , Mary Martha Sherwood , and Mary Howitt .
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Children’s Books”. Quarterly Review, Vol.
74
, pp. 1-26.
1
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
46
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 726
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Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
In May 1843 ER contributed again to the Quarterly Review, this time an anonymous review of Mary Martha Sherwood in The Lady of the Manor—Evangelical Novels.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 725
The notice was retrospective: Sherwood's...
Education Winifred Peck
From their nurse and the books read aloud by their governess rather than from their parents, the Knox children's religious education tended in the direction of bigotry, as mentioned above.
Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber.
26-9
Their parents encouraged them...

Timeline

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.