Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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, 1946.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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...
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.
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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
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edna Lyall
In London they set about with inadequate command of the language to locate the cheapest possible lodgings, which they find in Pentonville. Here Espérance studies English from their landlady's scanty supply of pious books...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edna Lyall
The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey
ism, is broad-minded
Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.
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about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans
but Moravians
, a Baptist
...
Timeline
By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...
Building item
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...
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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.