Edward Atkyns Bray

The year after her first husband 's death, Anna Eliza Stothard married the Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray , vicar of Tavistock in Devon.

AEB 's second husband, the Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray , died on 16 July 1857. He had fallen in the garden nearly a year before this and injured his spine. His last months were spent...

AEB and her husband entertained the poet Robert Southey and his son at their house.

Anna Eliza Bray first noticed MMC sometime in or just before 1827, when she spotted her in Tavistock church: a young woman, of the humbler class, dressed exceedingly neat, and remarkable on account of the...

The copies printed were distributed among friends and family. They all enjoyed the poems except Christina's brother Gabriel , who somewhat cattily wrote to their mother: I should advise her to console herself with the...

Her first husband, Charles , had died in 1821 and she had since married Edward Atkyns Bray . She worked on the manuscript in the mornings, hoping to have a chapter completed each night before...

Upon the death of her second husband , AEB moved from Tavistock in Devon to Brompton.

AEB edited the Poetical Remains, Social, Sacred, and Miscellaneous of her late second husband, Edward Atkyns Bray .

MMC was inspired to pen her first poem—On Creation—after hearing the Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray preach a sermon on the power of God manifested in the creation of the world.

MMC 's tribute to Southey reads: And since condescension my lay hath beguiled,
Forgive, Sir, the boldness of Nature's rude child;
Permit me to thank you with humble respect,
For goodness so great, which I...