Item Detail
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Sharpe, Matilda (1830-1916)
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Miss Sharpe
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poet, teacher, painter, educationist, collector of homilies, headmistress, writer of proverbs & maxims, editor
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English; born in London
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daughter of Sarah Sharpe & Samuel Sharpe (1799–1881) (cousins)
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Unitarian; Channing School; Royal Academy
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- Autumn Miscellany: Catalogue 808. London: Pickering & Chatto, [n.d.] (https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Catalogues_and_Lists_files/808_Autumn_Miscellany.pdf)
- Library of Congress Authorities (https://authorities.loc.gov/)
- National Portrait Gallery (https://www.npg.org.uk/)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
- Reilly, Catherine. Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899: An Annotated Biobibliography. London: Mansell, 1994.
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• wrote "On Wings of Fancy" The Journey to Paradise, or, Flight of the Soul to its Maker • compiled/edited Never Forget: A Collection of Precepts Old Favourites from the Elder Poets, with a Few Newer Friends