Mary Fawler Maude: Difference between revisions

She was the daughter of George H. Hooper, of [[Stanmore]], [[Middlesex]].<ref name="Smith1903" /> She traced her descent from the family of Bishop [[John Hooper (bishop)|John Hooper]], a Protestant [[martyr]].<ref name="Arnell1922">{{cite book |last1=Arnell |first1=Charles John |title=Poets of the Wight: An Anthology of Vectensian Poets, Namely of Poets Native to Or Otherwise Identified with the Isle of Wight, with Selections from Their Work and Prefactory Introductions and Portraits |date=1922 |publisher=County Press |pages=92-9892–98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syAeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

In 1841, she married the Rev. Canon Joseph Maude (d. 1887), who, at the time they first met, was [[curate]] of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and who was pastor of [[Newport, Isle of Wight]], from 1842 to 1852, afterwards being appointed [[Vicar (Anglicanism)|Vicar]] of [[Chirk]], near [[Ruabon]],<ref name="Smith1903" /> by Dr. Short, [[Bishop of St Asaph]], who had been his [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] at St. George's. Her husband became [[Canon (title)#Honorary canons|Honorary Canon]] of [[Diocese of St Asaph|St. Asaph]].<ref name="Julian1892">{{cite book |last1=Julian |first1=John |title=A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations |date=1892 |publisher=J. Murray |pages=719-20719–20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA719 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

The hymn that made Maude's name familiar to many church people of her day begins with, "Thine for ever! God of love". The hymn was written in 1847 for Maude's class in the girls' Sunday school at [[Sts Thomas Minster|St. Thomas]], [[Newport, Isle of Wight |Newport]] [[Isle of Wight]], as a confirmation hymn.<ref name="Smith1903" /><ref name="Pitman1892">{{cite book |last1=Pitman |first1=Emma Raymond |title=Lady Hymn Writers |date=1892 |publisher=T. Nelson and Sons |pages=143-44143–44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkFKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143 |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> It found acceptance in many countries, and was included in almost all collections. It did not, however, escape alteration at the hands of various editors.<ref name="TheStrand1895">{{cite magazine |first1=Francis Arthur |last1=Jones |editor1-last=Newnes |editor1-first=George |title=Some Popular Hymns, and How They Were Written. |magazine=The Strand Magazine |date=1895 |volume=9 |pages=584-85584–85 |url=https://archive.org/details/strand-1895-v-9/page/584 |via=Internet Archive |access-date=18 December 2023 |publisher=G. Newnes |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="Julian1892" /> Maude's life was not that of a [[intellectual|"woman of letters"]], or one lived in the public eye. She was the wife of a village pastor, and she shared in his work. Her hymn represents her one point of contact with the larger public.<ref name="Benson">{{cite book |last1=Benson |first1=Louis FitzGerald |title=Studies of Familiar Hymns |date=1903 |publisher=Westminster |isbn=978-0-7905-5685-7 |page=258 |url=https://archive.org/details/studiesoffamilia00bens_2/page/252 |via=Internet Archive |access-date=19 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

Maude's hymns were published in her ''Twelve Letters on Confirmation'', 1848, and in ''Memorials of Past Years'', 1852.<ref name="Julian1892" /> Her prose works, ''Scripture Manners and Customs'', ''Scripture Natural History'', and ''Scripture Topography'' (2 volumes), were published by the [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge|S.P.C.K.]].
The first collection of her poems, entitled ''Memories of Past Years'', was published at Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1852. She and her husband were then just leaving that Parish, after ten years' residence there, and it is prefaced by a valedictory address to the Teachers and Children of the Newport National, Sunday, and Blue Schools.<ref name="Arnell1922" />

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