Matilda Sharpe

Matilda Sharpe (4 April 1830 – 30 April 1916) was a British teacher, educational reformer and painter. In Highgate, north London, she founded Channing House School (after Robert Spears' idea) and a Unitarian Chapel in Despard Road. She was the daughter of Samuel Sharpe.

Sharpe was a talented painter and several of her portraits are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

• Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends. A selection by M. Sharpe. Williams and Norgate, London, 1881. Second revised edition, Methuen, 1912. An anthology of nine women poets, particularly Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
• Never forget: A collection of precepts. Griffith & Farran, London, 1890.
• The journey to paradise, or, flight of the soul to its maker. A heavenly day dream set down by Matilda Sharpe. Christian Life Office, London, 1899.