Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 44 · Women Who Shaped the Hymnal · Page 66 in print
Cecil Frances Alexander
Cecil Frances Alexander contributed poems to religious tracts while her friend Lady Harriet Howard supplied the prose.
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The words
Alexander
The hymn writer Cecil Frances Alexander.
Ballykean
A place where her family lived.
Derry
One part of her husband’s diocese.
Donegal
One of the counties near that home.
Harriet Howard
Her friend and collaborator.
Lough Swilly
The inlet beside Upper Fahan.
Lyra Anglicana
A collection to which Alexander contributed.
Moral Songs
A book by Alexander.
Raphoe
The other part of his diocese.
Strabane
The town near her family’s later home.
Tracts
The religious pamphlets to which she contributed poems.
Tyrone
The other county named in the account.
Upper Fahan
Her husband’s parish from 1855.
Walter Hook
The clergyman who prefaced her Verses for Holy Seasons.
Wicklow
The county of her family’s Ballykean home.
Sources
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement: Alexander, Cecil FrancesE. I. Carlyle, Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, public domain