| Main entry | Pickard, Hannah Maynard Thompson |
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| Birth place | Chester, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
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| Birth date | 25 November 1812 |
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| Death place | Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick |
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| Death date | 11 March 1844 |
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| Identifier | 0066 |
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| Birth name | Hannah Maynard Thompson |
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| Alternate names | A Lady |
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| Married name | Pickard |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Methodist |
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| Paid work | teacher (school); preceptress |
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| Other work | minister's wife |
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| Biography | Hannah Maynard Thompson Pickard (1812-1844) was known to her readers only as "A Lady." Raised in Massachusetts and educated at the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, she moved to New Brunswick in 1841 after she met and married the Reverend Humphrey Pickard (1813-1890). Also a writer, though more journalistic in style, he was the editor, at different times, of the BNA WESLEYAN METHODIST MAGAZINE and THE WESLEYAN. Whether she was teaching Sabbath School, working as preceptress of the Wilbraham Academy, helping her husband to found the Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, or writing, Hannah always worked to promote the Methodist ideals of personal piety and service to others and family. Her published works, PROCRASTINATION; or, MARIA LOUISA WINSLOW (1840), and THE WIDOW'S JEWELS. IN TWO STORIES (1844), are an expression of the social conscience that animates the posthumously published volume of her personal writings. Hannah died of heart failure at the age of thirty-one, less than a month after the birth and death of her second son. She was buried at Sackville Rural Cemetery. |
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| Residences | Chester, Massachusetts (1812-1815); Concord, Massachusetts (1815-c1825); Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1826-1829); Boston, Massachusetts (1829-1838); Wilbraham (1838-1841); Boston (1841); Saint John, New Brunswick (1841-1842); Sackville, New Brunswick (1843-1844) |
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| Geographic regions | New Brunswick; USA |
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| Primary genres | fiction; life-writing |
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| Books | PROCRASTINATION: OR, MARIA LOUISA WINSLOW (1840); THE WIDOW'S JEWELS: IN TWO STORIES (1844); MEMOIR AND WRITINGS OF MRS. HANNAH MAYNARD PICKARD (1845), edited by Edward Otheman |
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| Periodicals | SABBATH SCHOOL MESSENGER |
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| Father's name | Ebenezer Thompson |
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| Life dates of father | 14 December 1781, Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire - 25 March 1859; m. 1805 |
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| Father's note | ethnicity on birth index listed as "Canadian"; businessman; associated with Wesleyan Academy; second wife Hannah Sommerby; descendant of James Thompson, one of first settlers in New England under Governor John Winthrop |
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| Mother's name | Hannah Maynard |
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| Life dates of mother | 11 October 1779, Townsend, Massachusetts - 18 March 1841, Boston, Massachusetts; m. 1805 |
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| Spouse 1 | Reverend Humphrey Pickard |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 10 June 1813, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 28 February 1890, Sackville, New Brunswick |
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| Spouse 1 note | clergyman, Methodist; assistant to Albert DesBrisay; editor, BNA WESLEYAN MAGAZINE; principal, Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy; first president, Mount Allison Wesleyan College; editor, THE WESLEYAN; book steward; superintendent, Sackville District; second wife Mary Rowe Carr |
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| Marriage 1 date | 2 October 1841 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Bromfield Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Children number | 2 |
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| Children's names and dates | Edward Dwight (7 September 1842 - 7 May 1846);
Charles Frederick Allison (19 February 1844 - 26 February 1844) |
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| Biographical references | Lochhead, "Thompson, Hannah Maynard (Pickard)," DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY VII, University of Toronto/Université Laval (Web, 2000); Thompson, MEMORIAL OF JAMES THOMPSON, OF CHARLESTON, MASS., 1630-1642, AND WOBURN, MASS., 1642-1682 (1887) |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 366, 558 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | journal, Hannah Maynard Thompson fonds, Mount Allison Archives, Mount Allison University |
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| Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
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| Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |
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