Author: Hindmarsh, Isabella
Biography:
HINDMARSH, Isabella (1798-1823: findmypast.co.uk)
Born at Alnwick on 13 Nov. 1798, she was one of five surviving children of William Hindmarsh, a tanner, and his wife Jane Mattison (d 1813). She was baptised on 1 Sept. 1799 and educated at the Fulneck Moravian school. After her mother’s death, her father married Mary Athey in 1816. William Hindmarsh had multiple occupations in addition to his tanning business and was financially very successful. Isabella died at Alnwick on 5 December. A death notice from the Newcastle Chronicle is pasted into the front of the BL copy of her book and praises her verse. The preface states that the poems were written when she was between the ages of fourteen and eighteen and attributes the story of “The Cave of Hoonga” to John Martin’s Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands…Compiled and Arranged from the Extensive Correspondence of Mr. William Mariner (1817). (findmypast.co.uk 25 Feb. 2021; George Tate, The History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alwick [1866]; Newcastle Chronicle 6 Dec. 1823; Contributions from AA)
Other Names:
- Miss Hindmarsh