Mary Martha Sherwood
Mary Martha Sherwood was a prolific and influential writer of childrens literature in 19thcentury Britain. She composed over 400 books, tracts, magazine articles, and chapbooks. Among her best known works are The History of Little Henry and his Bearer , The History of Henry Milner , and The History of the Fairchild Family . While Sherwood is known primarily for the strong evangelicalism that coloured her early writings, her later works are characterized by common Victorian themes, such as domesticity.
Sherwood was born onMay 1775, in StanfordonTeme, Worcestershire, as the eldest daughter and second child of Martha Butt and Reverend George Butt, the chaplain in ordinary to George III. In her autobiography, Sherwood describes herself as an imaginative and playful child. She composed stories in her head before she could write and begged her mother to copy them down. Sherwood remembered her childhood as a delightful time filled with exciting adventures undertaken with her brother. She even makes the best of the stocks that she was forced to stand in while she did her lessons
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