Mary Gardiner Brainard

Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) was an American writer of religious poetry.

Mary Gardiner Brainard was daughter of William Fowler Brainard (1784-1844), a New London lawyer, whose younger brother was the poet John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, and his second wife Sarah Ann Prentis.^[1][2]

Her poem "Not Knowing" first appeared in The Congregationalist, March 1869, and was set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s.^[3]

References

1. ^ Horder, William Garrett, The Treasury of American Sacred Song, 1900, p. 383
2. ^ Dexter, F. B., Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College, 6 vols, 1885-1912
3. ^ Thomas Corts, Blessed Bliss, 2007

External links

• Works by or about Mary Gardiner Brainard in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Brainard, Mary Gardiner
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Date of birth	1837
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Date of death	1905
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