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MARY MARTHA See also: English author, was See also: born at Stanford, See also: Worcestershire, on the 6th of May 1775, the daughter of the Rev
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See also: George See also: Butt, D.D., then rector of Stanford
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In 1803 she married her See also: cousin, Captain See also: Henry
See also: Sherwood, an officer in the See also: British army, and subsequently accompanied him to See also: India, where she devoted herself to charitable See also: work and to writing
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Her See also: Indian See also: story, Little Henry and his See also: Bearer, was translated into many See also: languages
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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
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The sub-title of this 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
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The See also: book had a very large sale among the English See also: middle-classes
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Mrs Sherwood wrote nearly a See also: hundred stories of a religious type and tracts, mainly for the See also: young
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She died on the 22nd of See also: September 1851
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See The See also: Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood
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From the Diaries of Captain and Mrs Sherwood, edited by F
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