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.

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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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	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. 72 Jane Collier in her commonplace-book not only noted that Mrs Teachum has the Swift ian...
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...
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...
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. 33 about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...
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...
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. 231 Recently Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Literary responses	Amelia Opie	Mary Martha Sherwood later recalled seeing everyone at a public assembly thrown into tears when the latter of these songs was sung. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. xxxvii - lxx. xliii
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...
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...
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...
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...

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