Mary Martha Sherwood

06 May 1775 - 22 September 1851

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, 1946.

She also wrote poems. The British Library lacks many of her books; the holdings of Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian are better.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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, 1952. 26-9 Their parents encouraged them...
Education	Carola Oman	The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott 's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun 's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood
Education	Annie Keary	Annie was an eager reader, and in a comparative dearth of children's books she read the educationalist Rollin and the ancient historian Plutarch at an early age. It is probably Charles Rollin who is meant...
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, 2009. 12-13 When Betty was eleven...
Education	Rudyard Kipling	Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned...
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, 1955. 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. qtd. in Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844. ix From the age of seven, when she heard a sermon she did not...
Education	Mary Russell Mitford	She spent several years at the boarding school at 22 Hans Place in Chelsea, run by Monsieur de St Quintin or St Quentin (who bailed her father out with money in some of his...
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
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...
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, 1910. 450 By this date they had in common their intensely Evangelical belief.
Friends, Associates	Hannah More	Many of her later friends were at least a generation younger than she was. She met many members of the Clapham Sect in the 1790s, of whom Henry Thornton and his daughter Marianne became particularly...
Intertextuality and Influence	Harriett Mozley	The month of the title is that of December, with Christmas in its midst. The story is one of family relationships among children: realistic, witty, and uncondescending. The issue of child nurture and education in...
Intertextuality and Influence	E. Nesbit	Wet Magic is a book full of legendary water creatures such as mermaids. It features a family of children tyrannised over by the unpleasant Aunt Enid (a contrast with other aunts whom EN had presented...
Intertextuality and Influence	Margaret Oliphant	The plot of the first novel concerns concealed family origin and loss of inheritance. Edgar Arden, brought up abroad, finds English social customs puzzling. MO uses his visit to view a corpse as a means...

Timeline

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.

Synod of Dort. http://www.ccel.org/creeds/canons-of-dort.html.

About 1766

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

Drabble, Margaret. “A Day Out in Kew”. Jane Austen Sings the Blues, edited by Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2009, pp. 57-65.

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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, 4 vols.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. Roxobel. Houlston, 1831, 3 vols.

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, 3 vols.

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, 7 vols.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Latter Days. R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1833.

Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Monk. New and improved edition, 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.

Butt, George, and Mary Martha Sherwood. The Spanish Daughter. London, 1824, 2 vols.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Traditions. Minerva Press, 1795, 2 vols.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Works of Mrs. Sherwood. Harper and Brothers, 1858.

Sherwood, Mary Martha. Victoria. J. Hatchard and Son, 1833.