# A little child's wreath

Author: Chapman, Elizabeth Rachel, 1850-1902; Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1866-1948 [Illustrator]

Genre: English poetry -- 19th century

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77707

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+little+child%27s+wreath+Chapman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, whose sonnets are now republished as a memorial volume, was born at Woodford, Essex, in February, 1850. She was descended through her father from a Yorkshire family associated, in many of its generations, with Whitby, and was connected through both father and mother with the Gurneys of Earlham. She was a great-grand-daughter of Elizabeth Fry, and was said to bear her a noticeable resemblance. That this likeness was also in her mind is attested by the “genius for benevolence” which she inherited from her ancestress, and by the tenderness of her affection and pity for all sufferers. In her _Book of Sibyls_ Mrs. Ritchie (Miss Thackeray) describes the Gurneys of Earl...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-little-child-s-wreath-77707/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-little-child-s-wreath-77707/chapters/2/index.md)