Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards (1836-1919). Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles. Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles

Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards (1836–1919)


MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS, sister of Amelia B. Edwards, the Egyptologist, was born at Westerfield, near Ipswich, on the 4th of March, 1836. She published “Poems” (1885), besides several works of fiction. As a writer of hymns for children she was eminently successful. The following examples first appeared in Good Words for 1873.	1