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Mary martha sherwood biography
Mary Martha Sherwood
Sherwood, Mary Martha née Butt, 1775—1851
by Benjamin Colbert
Martha Mary Sherwood, née Butt, was born at Stanford, Worcestershire, the daughter of the Reverend George Butt (1741-95; ODNB) and Martha Butt, née Sherwood (d.
1817). She received her initial education at home, principally from her mother, while her father and brother taught her Latin and Greek respectively (Demers). At the age of 13, her family moved to Kidderminster, and from 15, she boarded at the Abbey School, Reading.
After her father’s death in 1795, the family relocated to Bridgnorth, Shropshire, where Mary Butt and her sister Lucy ran a Sunday school, influenced by Hannah More whom she later met in 1799 on a visit to Bath.
From an early age, Sherwood enjoyed narrating tales to her younger sisters and, with her father’s encouragement, published her first novel in 1795, The Traditions: A Legendary Tale – a Miss Austen from 'Steventon, near Overton’ (either Jane Austen or her sister Cass