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My mother at the gate

Author: Matilda Edwards Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: There's many a lovely picture Refrain First Line: But the sweetest, dearest image

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My mother at the gate

Author: Matilda Edwards Hymnal: Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home #d47 (1903) First Line: There's many a lovely picture Refrain First Line: But the sweetest, dearest image

My mother at the gate

Author: Matilda Edwards Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d350 (1898) First Line: There's many a lovely picture Refrain First Line: But the sweetest, dearest image Languages: English

My mother at the gate

Author: Matilda Edwards Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d384 (1898) First Line: There's many a lovely picture Refrain First Line: But the sweetest, dearest image Languages: English

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Matilda Betham-Edwards

1836 - 1919 Person Name: Matilda Edwards Author of "My mother at the gate" 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 ============================== 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)