Background
Maria Grace Saffery was born 1773 and died 5 March 1858 in Westbury district Wiltshire, England. Saffery was possibly the daughter of William Andrews of Stroud Green, Newbury, Berkshire although other sources differ.
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Maria Grace Saffery was born 1773 and died 5 March 1858 in Westbury district Wiltshire, England. Saffery was possibly the daughter of William Andrews of Stroud Green, Newbury, Berkshire although other sources differ.
She was baptized on 30 November 1774. At the age of fifteen, she started writing her first big piece and showed great abilities in doing southern Her first poem was about Chait Singh, the Raja of Benares who was in dispute with Warren Hastings in India.
Saffery was originally brought under the personal influence of Thomas Scott, the bible commentator.
Maria Saffery had a sister named Anne, who was also a writer They had six children, the eldest, Philip John Saffery, succeeded to the office of paster of the church at his father"s death in 1825.
Saffery also created a girl"s school in Salisbury.
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