Maria Grace Saffery

Maria Grace Saffery (1773–1858) was a Baptist poet and hymn-writer from England.

Early life

Maria Grace Andrews was born in 1773 in the

Maria had a sister named Anne, who was also a writer. Maria married John Saffery, pastor of the Baptist church at Brown Street in Salisbury, becoming his second wife, in 1799. They had six children; the eldest, Philip John Saffery, succeeded to the office of pastor of the church at his father's death in 1825. Saffery also created a girls' school in Salisbury. In 1835 she retired to Bratton, also in Wiltshire, where the rest of her life was spent with her daughter. She died on 5 March 1858 and was buried in the graveyard of the baptist chapel there.^[3]

Major works

Poems

• Cheyt Sing. A Poem. By a Young Lady of Fifteen (1790)^[4]

Hymns

• Tis the Great Father we adore (1828)
• Poems on Sacred Subjects (1834)
• God of the sunlight hours, how sad (1834)
• There is a little lonely fold (1834)
• Fain, O my child, I'd have thee know (1844)^[5]

Novels

• The Noble Enthusiast (1792)^[6]

See also

English women hymnwriters (18th to 19th-century)

References