Mary Anne Hearn

She was a keen supporter of the Salvation Army and the temperance movement, and, after hearing Benjamin Waugh relating incidents of parental cruelty, she gave her reluctant approval to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. (ODNB)

Religion:

Baptist

"Her devout parents, who attended a local (Particular) Baptist church at Eynsford, taught her to read the Bible by the age of six. ... At the age of fourteen she officially joined the (Strict) Baptist church at Eynsford, and at the same time began submitting verses to religious publications. ... In 1857 the Baptist minister at Eynsford, Jonathan Whittemore, established a new periodical called the Christian World; he invited her to contribute, suggesting the pseudonym of Marianne Farningham, and a verse by her appeared in the first number of the magazine on 9 April." (ODNB)

Education

Formal Education:

Minimal formal education

Formal Education End Age:

12

Attended British and Foreign Society School at Eynsford

References and Sources

References and Sources:

Biblio Texts:

#238

78-79

571-2

Other Digital References:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Mary Anne Hearn's Publications

Title	Publication Date	Publisher	Digitized or Digital Editions	Additional Notes
Lays and Lyrics of the Blessed Life	1860	James Clarke & Co.	Archive.org
Grace Darling	1876			A biography of Grace Darling
Songs of Sunshine	1878
Will You Take It?	1887
A Working Woman's Life	1907	James Clarke & Co.		An autobiography

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Mary Anne Hearn's Publications

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