Matilda Betham-Edwards

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)