Frances Ridley Havergal

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FRH 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.
Low resolution black and white three-quarter-length photo of Frances Ridley Havergal sitting on a chair, Her hair is braided in a crown on top of her head. She is wearing a dark, long-skirted dress and jacket with white at the throat and wrists. She sits at a table with two drawers, with a basket like a jewel box on the table and a fat book in her lap. Underneath the image her signature is reproduced: "Frances R. Havergal".

Milestones

14 December 1836

FRH was born at Astley in Worcestershire, the youngest of a family in which she had three sisters and two brothers.
Chappell, Jennie. Women Who Have Worked and Won. Pickering and Inglis.
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After January 1869

FRH 's first collection of hymns and poetry, The Ministry of Song, appeared in print; she had been ten years in preparing it.
Janet Grierson discusses the work's publication in 1869 but lists it as appearing in 1871. The second edition did appear in 1871; it seems that the first was undated.
Grierson, Janet. Frances Ridley Havergal: Worchestershire Hymnwriter. Havergal Society.
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Havergal, Frances Ridley. Letters by the Late Frances Ridley Havergal. Editor Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, Anson D. F. Randolph.
prelims

3 June 1879

FRH died of hepatitis and peritonitis at Caswell Bay near The Mumbles, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.
Enock, Esther E. Frances Ridley Havergal. Pickering and Inglis.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

14 December 1836

FRH was born at Astley in Worcestershire, the youngest of a family in which she had three sisters and two brothers.
Chappell, Jennie. Women Who Have Worked and Won. Pickering and Inglis.
93

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