A. M. G.

In the mid-nineteenth-century collection Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, selected and edited by the Reverend Joseph Francis Thrupp in 1853, the initials "A. M. G." (rendered in some historical reference indices as "A. M. Gh" due to a typographical error) were utilized to attribute original hymn contributions to Anna Maria Glennie.

Anna Maria Glennie was born around 1824 in Cheriton, Kent. She was the daughter of the Reverend John David Glennie and Anna Marie Woodyear. Deeply involved in the production of moral and religious literature from her youth, she began writing instructional fiction for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.) in the late 1840s.

Her contributions to Thrupp's 1853 volume represent her notable involvement in parish hymnody before her marriage in 1855 to Walter Glennie Smith, a paper manufacturer. Following her marriage, she was frequently known by her married name, Mrs. W. Glennie Smith, under which she continued her literary work. She spent three decades living in Fiume, Austria, before retiring to Clifton, Bristol, where she lived until her passing in 1902.