Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was an English Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 500 separate publications.
"Odd People I Have Known---Auntie" is a reprint of short story that appeared in an 1899 newspaper.
In this short story Baring-Gould writes:
"No one without a moment’s thought would suppose that she had once been young. Of course when you considered, you knew that in the order of nature young she must have been; but here entire appearance and cut of figure and dress seemed to proclaim that she had been born old, and had remained at a standstill while the world moved on."
Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.
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