1864–?

Born: 1863, Broomfield, Essex, England. Note: Julian, page 1276, gives her birth place as Bloomfield. This seems to be an error, based on entries at the Essex Record Office.

Baptized: September 27, 1863, Broomfield, Essex, England, by her father, who was vicar of Broomfield at the time.

Biography

Mary was the daughter of John Bradford Whiting, vicar of Broomfield (1861), and St. Luke’s, Ramsgate, Kent (1865).

Works

Mary contributed a number of hymns to her father’s Hymns for the Church Catholic, 1882. Her other works include:

The Squire of the Parish
Stronger Than Fate
A Thorny Way (Nelson, 1900)
The Raj Incarnate, 1911
Meriel’s Career—A Tale of Literary Life in London, 1915
Wallaby Hill, a children’s novel, 1921
A Daughter of the Empire (London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University, 1921)
Dante the Man and Poet, 1922
What Hazel Did
Dauntless Heart
The Plough of Shame
Put to the Test and Other Stories of Life and Adventure, 1933
The Reading of the Will

Sources

Lyrics

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