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Mary Rowles Jarvis
A British poet and hymn writer, she also wrote children's fiction and nature-focused books that found readers in the late Victorian and Edwardian years. Her work ranges from devotional verse to stories such as Dick Lionheart and books like The Tree Book.
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Dick Lionheart
by Mary Rowles Jarvis
About the author
Born Mary Rowles in Gloucestershire in 1853, she became known as Mary Rowles Jarvis after marrying the Rev. George Jarvis in 1888. Reference works on hymn writers describe her as a contributor of devotional poetry to periodicals including The Sunday at Home, and note that this verse was later gathered in Sunshine and Calm: Songs by the Way.
She wrote across more than one genre. Library records and public-domain catalogs connect her name not only with hymns and religious poetry, but also with fiction and children's literature, including The Sliding Panel; or, The Miser of Raynham Farm, Dick Lionheart, and The Tree Book.
Although she is not widely known today, her surviving bibliography suggests a versatile writer whose books moved easily between faith, storytelling, and the natural world. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources reviewed.