Also a follower of the Oxford Movement
, Alexander
was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet.
McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
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Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
101, 110-11
Family and Intimate relationships
Cecil Frances Alexander
Alexander
's esteem for his wife is reflected in his Preface to her Poems, where he writes that while his beloved had no pretension whatever to regular beauty, she possessed the sensitive susceptibility...