Frances Ridley Havergal
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was a late Victorian religious poet, children's author, and hymn-writer. Her publications during her lifetime were sporadic, but a flood of her works reached print after her death. She composed more than seventy hymns, some of which are still loved and sung, and more than twenty books on various religious matters.
- BirthName: Frances Ridley HavergalShe wrote a poem about her own name, in which she derives the Ridley from, Protestant martyr, who was burned to death at Oxford on 21 March 1556, as much as from her godfather .
- Nicknames: Fannie; Little Quicksilver
- Pseudonyms: F. R. H.; Sabrina; ZoideThe Dictionary of Literary Biography gives this as Sabina.