Author: GARNIER, Emily
Biography:
GARNIER, Emily (1821-35: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 28 Apr. 1821 and baptised on 14 August at Bishopstoke, near Winchester, the youngest child of the Rev. Thomas Garnier (1775-1873), who was Rector, and his wife Maria Parry (1781-1849). They married at Bath in 1805 and went on to have eight children. The family was of Huguenot descent. Her father later became Dean of Winchester. Shortly before her death, she went to live in the Close, Winchester, recording her final thoughts on her "journey" to Winchester and the afterlife in "On Going to Reside in the Close at Winchester, January 1835." She died there on 29 Mar. 1835 and was buried at Bishopstoke. Her volume is sometimes attributed to her father but it is quite clear the poems are hers and the tribute is the publication not the poems. The poems are quite accomplished for a young girl in ill health and consist of poems to her only surviving sister, Maria; other siblings and relatives; Odes; and two topographical poems, "The River at Brambridge" and "Farewell to the Downs." Her father described them as “the outpourings of a pious and intelligent mind, ever in love with the beauties of nature” (A Father’s Tribute, [v]) which distinguishes her volume from the more religious productions of Eliza Mary Hardcastle and Mary Mallitt (qq.v.). (ancestry.co.uk 24 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 24 Jan., 2022; Bell’s Weekly Messenger 5 Apr. 1835; "Garnier, Thomas," ODNB 24 Jan. 2022; Burke [1846], 1: 459) AA