Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 46 · Women Who Shaped the Hymnal · Page 68 in print
Sarah Doudney
Sarah Doudney wrote fiction and magazine verse as well as hymns; her Psalms of Life was published by Houlston in 1871.
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The words
Brock
The editor who included her evening hymn in 1881.
Cosham
The place associated with her father.
Fiction
One of the literary forms Doudney wrote.
George Doudney
Her father.
Good Words
A periodical that carried her writing.
Houlston
The publisher of that volume.
Mary of Bethany
The biblical woman named as a subject of Doudney’s hymn.
Portsmouth
The city near her birthplace.
Psalms of Life
Doudney’s 1871 volume.
Sarah Doudney
The poet and hymn writer.
School Hymnal
Stevenson’s 1880 collection containing her work.
Serials
Periodicals in which her work appeared.
Stevenson
The editor who included her hymn in 1880.
Sunday Evening
The occasion assigned to Doudney’s closing hymn.
Watermill
The subject of her early popular poem.
Sources
- Sarah DoudneyJohn Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), public domain