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Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer

Valerie Wallace

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Description:Hymns such as 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', 'There Is a Green Hill Far Away', 'St Patrick's Breastplate' and 'Once in Royal David's City' have passed out of the confines of the weekly church service and entered the language. Here, for the first time, Valerie Wallace recounts the full story of the woman behind these hymns in this vivid and sympathetic biography of Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander.Born to the upper middle-classes in Dublin's Eccles Street in 1818, 'Fanny' Humphreys moved aged seven to south Co. Wicklow, where her father was an agent to the Earl of Wicklow. Thereafter her young life was spent in Tyrone, Donegal and Londonderry, where she developed as a writer while providing assistance and spiritual guidance to the needy, and, with her sister, pioneering teaching for deaf and dumb children.The narrative leads from childhood days, through her popularity and fame as author of Hymns for Little Children in 1848, to her marriage to William Alexander, who went on to be Bishop of Derry and Raphoe (and, after his wife's death, Primate of All Ireland). Mrs Alexander throws light on the struggles behind a conventional marriage, the intellectual friendships and exchanges within the ecclesiastical establishment of mid- and late-Victorian England, and upon the social history of nineteenth-century Ulster at large. It is a fascinating life of this extraordinary and achieved 'queen of Irish hymn-writers'.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer. To get started finding Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Hymns such as 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', 'There Is a Green Hill Far Away', 'St Patrick's Breastplate' and 'Once in Royal David's City' have passed out of the confines of the weekly church service and entered the language. Here, for the first time, Valerie Wallace recounts the full story of the woman behind these hymns in this vivid and sympathetic biography of Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander.Born to the upper middle-classes in Dublin's Eccles Street in 1818, 'Fanny' Humphreys moved aged seven to south Co. Wicklow, where her father was an agent to the Earl of Wicklow. Thereafter her young life was spent in Tyrone, Donegal and Londonderry, where she developed as a writer while providing assistance and spiritual guidance to the needy, and, with her sister, pioneering teaching for deaf and dumb children.The narrative leads from childhood days, through her popularity and fame as author of Hymns for Little Children in 1848, to her marriage to William Alexander, who went on to be Bishop of Derry and Raphoe (and, after his wife's death, Primate of All Ireland). Mrs Alexander throws light on the struggles behind a conventional marriage, the intellectual friendships and exchanges within the ecclesiastical establishment of mid- and late-Victorian England, and upon the social history of nineteenth-century Ulster at large. It is a fascinating life of this extraordinary and achieved 'queen of Irish hymn-writers'.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer. To get started finding Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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