The Times/1910/Obituary/Mary Isabella Irwin Brotherton

A correspondent writes:—

Mrs. Brotherton, who died last week at Freshwater, aged 90, was a remarkable women. She was the daughter of John Melford Rees, a Puisne Judge of the Calcutta Bench, and widow of the landscape painter Augustus Henry Brotherton. Many of her stories and poems were written from Rome, and in 1874 she published a volume of prose, "Old Acquaintance (Brotherton)|Old Acquaintance," and fifteen years ago a volume of verse, "Rosemary for Remembrance," which were both deservedly successful. In her long life Mrs. Brotherton had made many friends, among them Lord Tennyson, his eldest brother, Mr. Frederick Tennyson, Thackeray, the Browning, and Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A. Her poems are full of real music and deep feeling, and some of her letters to her friends are beautiful, full of shrewd obersvation and tender sympathy.