The Times/1924/Obituary/Annie Matheson

Miss Annie Matheson

Miss Annie Matheson, who died in London yesterday, after a short illness, had been known for many years as a writer in verse and prose. She inherited from her father, the Rev. James Matheson, of Nottingham, an enthusiasm for beauty in life and in literature. Though her work belongs to a period when the technique of such writing was less rigorously considered perhaps than it is now, the graceful idealism of her thoughts gives it areal value. She published various books of verse, chief among them being "Love Triumphant and Other Poems." Some of her children's hymns are in constant use. Lately she devoted herself to editing a series of biographies of great or heroic men and women for schools, the "Rose ad Dragon" series, some of which she wrote herself.

Miss Matheson's work, and especially her writings for young people, reflected the fine ardour of her mind, a detachment from materialism, and a childlike confidence of spirit. These qualities, together with a certain charming waywardness of which she herself was usually the first to see the humorous results, won her many friends, by whom she is held in a lasting and tender regard.