Mary Martha Sherwood was an English children's writer. Of her more than four hundred works, the best known include The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814) and the two series The History of Henry Milner (1822–1837) and The History of the Fairchild Family (1818–1847). Her evangelicalism permeated her early writings, but later works cover common Victorian themes, such as domesticity.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, children's writer, illustrator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- May 6, 1775
- Died
- October 22, 1851, September 20, 1851, September 22, 1851
