Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 47 · Women Who Shaped the Hymnal · Page 69 in print
Anna Laetitia Waring
Before Waring’s Hymns and Meditations appeared in 1850, several of her hymns had already appeared in Lovell Squire’s 1848 collection.
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The words
Anglican
The church tradition Waring joined.
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Animals
Creatures she loved and wrote about.
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Anna Waring
The writer Anna Letitia Waring.
Arnos Vale
The Bristol cemetery where she was buried.
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Broadway
The street in that edition’s publisher address.
Dutton
The publisher of the 1873 edition.
Elijah Waring
Her father.
Huntington
The bishop who introduced the American edition.
Lovell Squire
The editor who printed her hymns in 1848.
Mary Talbot
Author of a short 1911 memorial account of Waring.
Neath
Her Welsh birthplace.
Plas-y-Velin
The house where Waring was born.
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Quaker
The faith tradition of Waring’s parents.
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Samuel Waring
Her hymn-writing uncle Samuel Miller Waring.
Stereotyping
The printing process named in its imprint.
Sources
- Waring, Anna LetitiaUniversity of Toronto, Representative Poetry Online, biographical record
- John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), public domainHymnary.org
- Miss Anna L. Waring: Hymns and Meditations - Christian Classics Ethereal LibraryHymns and Meditations, 1873 American edition, public domain
- National Trust Collections catalogue, object 3252095nationaltrustcollections.org.uk