About Bertha Marian Skeat
Lived 1861 – 1948 (aged 86). Bertha Marian Skeat was a British head teacher, writer and teacher.
Bertha Marian Skeat or Bertha Skeat (30 December 1861 – 2 December 1948) was a British writer and schoolmistress.
Life Skeat was born in East Dereham in 1861. She was the first child of Bertha Clara and Walter William Skeat. She had five siblings including the anthropologist Walter William Skeat. She also wrote a primer and two anthologies for use in teaching English. The school she founded closed in 1932.
Skeat died in Sedbergh unmarried on 2 December 1948.
Works The Lamentations of Mary Magdalene – a play (1897) Atalanta's Race – a play (1907) The Crucifixion of Mary, and other Poems (1924) Sedbergh Dreams (1930)
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schoolmistress
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Bertha Marian Skeat was born on 30 December 1861 in Dereham.
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Bertha Marian Skeat died on 2 December 1948 in Sedbergh.
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Bertha Marian Skeat was a head teacher, writer and teacher.
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