It was inscribed to the Earl of Wicklow
, in tender Remembrance and grateful Affection;
Alexander, Cecil Frances. The Legend of the Golden Prayers, and Other Poems. Bell and Daldy, 1859.
prelims
he had been CFA
's father's employer, and was himself the father of her dear childhood friend, Lady Harriet Howard
.
Friends, Associates
Cecil Frances Alexander
While living as a child at Ballykeane House, near the town of Redcross, Wicklow, Cecil Frances Humphreys
(later CFA
) became friends with the future Lady Harriet Howard
; they shared literary, religious, and...
Friends, Associates
Cecil Frances Alexander
In 1846, CFA
's friend Lady Harriet Howard
, who shared her charitable interests, died of tuberculosis.
Textual Production
Cecil Frances Alexander
With her friend Lady Harriet Howard
, the future CFA
contributed to tracts for the Oxford Movement
, published during these years.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.