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Matilda Betham-Edwards
1836 - 1919 Person Name: Matilda Betham Edwards Author of "God, Make My Life a Little Light" in Songs for Little People Born: March 4, 1836, Westerfield (near Ipswich), England.
Died: January 4, 1919, Hastings, Sussex, England.
[Matilda Betham Edwards (1836-1919)]
Daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards, Matilda was educated in Ipswich and Peckham, and traveled extensively, especially in Germany and France. Her works include:
The White House by the Sea, 1857
Dr. Jacob, 1864
Kitty, 1869
Poems, 1885
Lord of the Harvest, 1899
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (Betham-Edwards), daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Amelia B. Edwards, the Egyptologist, was born at Westerfield, near Ipswich, March 4, 1836. Miss Edwards is well known as the author of Kitty, The Sylvesters, and other stories. Her Poems were published in 1885. Her hymn for Children's Services, "God make my life a little light," in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887, first appeared in Good Words, 1873, p. 393, together with another hymn for children, "The little birds now seek their rest" (Evening). Several of her religious pieces have passed into devotional and other works.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Grace Wilbur Conant
1858 - 1948 Composer of "[God, make my life a little light]" in Songs for Little People Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby.
Born: September 9, 1858, Boston, Massachusetts.
Died: April 7, 1948, Malden, Massachusetts.
Grace remained single all her life. Her middle name was her mother’s maiden name. She served as musical editor for the Kindergarten Review for at least six years, starting in 1908. Her works include:
Songs for Little People, with Frances Weld Danielson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Pilgrim Press, 1905)
Worship and Song, with Benjamin S. Winchester (Pilgrim Press, 1913)
Religious Dangers of Modern Tendencies in So-Called Religious Songs, 1917
Song and Play for Children, with Frances Weld Danielson (Pilgrim Press, 1925)
--The Cyber Hymnal
Grace Wilbur Conant
