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Informationen zum Autor Mary Martha Sherwood was a nineteenth-century English children's writer. The best-known of her more than four hundred writings are The History of Little Henry and His Bearer (1814), as well as the two volumes The History of Henry Milner (1822-1837) and The History of the Fairchild Family (1818-1847). Her evangelicalism permeated her early writings, although her later works address popular Victorian subjects like domesticity. Mary Martha Butt married Captain Henry Sherwood and relocated to India for eleven years. She converted to evangelical Christianity, built schools for army commanders' children and indigenous Indian children, adopted abandoned or orphaned children, and established an orphanage. She was motivated to write literature for youngsters in military camps. Sherwood's career was divided into three periods: the romantic period (1795-1805), the evangelical period, during which she wrote her most popular and significant works, and the post-evangelical period. Her writing was characterized by "her conviction of inherent human corruption," her idea that literature "had a catechetical utility" for all levels of society, her opinion that "the dynamics of family life" should reflect basic Christian teachings, and her "virulent" anti-Catholicism. Sherwood's work has been described as "one of the most significant authors of children's literature of the nineteenth century". Her representations of domesticity and ties to India may have affected many young readers, but her work declined in popularity as children's literature expanded in the late nineteenth century. Klappentext A 1910 biography, based on diaries, of the successful children's author and passionate educationalist Mary Martha Sherwood (1775 1851). Zusammenfassung This book, published in 1910, recounts the life of the children's author and educationalist Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), who established schools in England, and in India, where she lived for 11 years. It is based on Sherwood's diaries, supplemented by information from her husband's diaries and the Sherwood family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Ancestry and birth (1741-75); 2. Early days at Stanford (1775-87); 3. Kidderminster (1788-90); 4. Captain Sherwood's wanderings (1787-95); 5. School life (1791-3); 6. The last days of childhood (1794-6); 7. Retirement and marriage (1795-1803); 8. Following the camp (1803-5); 9. Round the Cape to India (1805); 10. From Calcutta to Dinapore by water (1805); 11. Illness and sorrow at Berhampore (1805-7); 12. Life and death at Cawnpore (1807-9); 13. A journey to Calcutta and back (1809-10); 14. Henry Martyn and Cawnpore (1810-12); 15. Meerut; 16. The return to England (1816-17); 17. A fresh start (1817-21); 18. Pupils and family affairs (1822-51); Appendix; Index....
