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MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD (1775-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 853 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY MARTHA See also:SHERWOOD (1775-1851)  , See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Stanford, See also:Worcestershire, on the 6th of May 1775, the daughter of the Rev . See also:George See also:Butt, D.D., then See also:rector of Stanford . In 1803 she married her See also:cousin, See also:Captain See also:Henry See also:Sherwood, an officer in the See also:British See also:army, and subsequently accompanied him to See also:India, where she devoted herself to charitable See also:work and to See also:writing . Her See also:Indian See also:story, Little Henry and his See also:Bearer, was translated into many See also:languages . Her best-known work, however, is The See also:History of the Fairchild See also:Family, written after her return to See also:England, of which the first See also:part appeared in 1818, and the second and third parts in 1842 and 1847 respectively . The sub-See also:title of this See also:tale is The See also:Child's See also:Manual, being aseries of stories calculated to show the importance and effects of a religious See also:education . The See also:book had a very large See also:sale among the English See also:middle-classes . Mrs Sherwood wrote nearly a See also:hundred stories of a religious type and tracts, mainly for the See also:young . She died on the 22nd of See also:September 1851 . See The See also:Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood . From the Diaries of Captain and Mrs Sherwood, edited by F . J .

H . Darton (1910) .

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