William Johnson Fox

Standard Name: Fox, William Johnson
Used Form: W. J. Fox

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Leisure and Society Sarah Flower Adams
At the time, she, her sister , and her father were accompanying W. J. Fox , who had been asked to preach in Edinburgh.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press.
20-1
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Flower Adams
These contributions appeared under the pseudonym S. Y., which Eliza Bridell Fox claims indicated her pet name Sally to her personal friends.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 5
SFA was strongly influenced by her father, Benjamin Flower ...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
In his Lectures, W. J. Fox compared her to Barrett Browning, praising SFA as the more politically sensitive
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
of the two.
Publishing Sarah Flower Adams
This was her longest work. An edition in 1893 was prefaced with a memoir by W. J. Fox 's daughter Eliza Bridell Fox .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
SFA protested at the Evangelical prejudice against the drama,
Mineka, Francis Edward. The Dissidence of Dissent: The Monthly Repository, 1806-38. University of North Carolina Press.
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and...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
Fox describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 6
However, scholar Richard Garnett pronounced less...
Textual Features Sarah Flower Adams
This collection also includes the popular He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower, which was later sung at the funerals of both Sarah and her sister Eliza . The hymns were written for use in...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
In 1894, SFA 's poem A Summer Recollection was included in Moncure D. Conway 's Centenary History of the South Place Society based on Four Discourses given in the Chapel in May and June, 1893...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
The location of several other SFA poems owned by W. J. Fox is unknown.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 4

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