Edith Margaret Gellibrand Reed

REED, Edith Margaret Gellibrand. b. Islington, London (then Middlesex), 31 March 1885; d. Barnet, Hertfordshire, 4 June 1933. She was educated at the Guildhall School of Music. She was a music educator, who edited a periodical for children, Pan’s Pipes, and was the first editor of Music and Youth, a post that she held from 1921 to 1926. She wrote Story-Lives of Great Composers (1925), and two plays, Christmastide. A Nativity Play (1932) and With Jockey to the Fair. A May-Day Play, published after her death (1936). She had a stroke in December 1932, and died six months later. Reed is known for the carol ‘Infant holy, infant lowly’*, a translation of a Polish carol, beginning ‘W Żłobie Leży’,...