Mary Gardiner Brainard (June 19, 1837 – November 30, 1905) was an American writer of religious poetry.

Biography

Mary Gardiner Brainard was born in

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. She was daughter of William Fowler Brainard (1784-1844), a New London lawyer, whose uncle was the poet John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, and his second wife Sarah Ann Prentis. Her poem "Not Knowing" first appeared in ''The Congregationalist'', March 1869, and was set to music as a hymn by

Philip Paul Bliss Philip Paul Bliss (9 July 1838 – 29 December 1876) was an American composer, conductor, writer of hymns and a bass-baritone Gospel singer. He wrote many well-known hymns, including "Hold the Fort" (1870), "Almost Persuaded" (1871); "Hallelujah, ...

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1837 births 1905 deaths Christian poets American women poets 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers {{US-poet-1830s-stub