Monica Bridges

An haifi Mary Monica Waterhouse (na bogi) Matthew Barnes (31 ga Agusta 1863 - 9 ga Nuwamba 1949) mawakiyar piano ce ta Burtaniya, mawakiya kuma mai haɗin gwiwa da mijinta mawaƙi Robert Bridges . Ta sanya rubutun hannu na rubutun harafi ya shahara a makarantun Burtaniya.

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Bridges a Victoria Park, Manchester, a shekarar 1863 kuma ta girma a babban gidan Foxhill House kusa da Reading wanda iyayenta suka zauna a ciki har zuwa 1881. Mahaifiyarta, Elizabeth (an haife ta a Hodgkin), ta koyar da fasaharta da sana'arta kuma ta zama mai buga piano da mawaƙi. Mahaifinta, Alfred Waterhouse, ƙwararren mai zane ne kuma mai nasara sosai. 

Ta haɗu da mijinta na gaba tun tana tsakiyar shekarunta na samartaka. Sun kasance masu haɗin gwiwa a fannin fasaha kuma sun yi aure a shekarar 1884.

A shekarar 1903 ita da 'yarta, Margaret, dukkansu sun kamu da cutar tarin fuka. 

A shekarar 1905, an buga littafinta (na MM Bridges), A New Handwriting for Teachers .  Ta kasance ƙwararren mai rubuta rubutun hannu kuma an yaba wa wannan littafin da ya sa rubutun hannu na rubutun hannu ya zama na zamani a makarantun Burtaniya. 

A shekarar 1907, sun yi amfani da kuɗin da mahaifinta ya bar musu, suka gina gida a Chilswell . 

A shekarar 1913 aka kafa ƙungiyar Society for Pure English inda mijinta ya sami yabo.  Monica da mijinta duk sun yi aiki a kwamitin  kuma za su buga takardu tare a ƙarƙashin sunan Matthew Barnes da aka haɗa. Sauran membobin sun haɗa da H. Bradley, Sir W. Raleigh da LP Smith . Ƙungiyar tana da nufin samun haske a sadarwa kuma sun rubuta game da batutuwan da suka shafi samo kalmomi da amfani da su. 

 Mutuwa da gado 
Mijinta ya mutu a shekarar 1930, Bridges kuma ya mutu a Kudancin Landan a shekarar 1949.  Wasikunta (da mijinta) ana ajiye su a cikin Laburare na Bodleian . 

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