Frances Ridley Havergal

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Standard Name: Havergal, Frances Ridley
Birth Name: Frances Ridley Havergal
Pseudonym: F. R. H.
Pseudonym: Sabrina
Pseudonym: Zoide
Nickname: Fannie
Nickname: Little Quicksilver
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.

Connections

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Fictionalization Charlotte Elliott
The twentieth-century novelist Barbara Pym was planning at the time of her death to construct a novel (which she did not live to finish) around a Victorian hymn-writing woman like CE or Frances Ridley Havergal .
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan.
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Textual Features Agnes Giberne
A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty ).
Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Seeley.
prelims
The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...

Timeline

January 1877: A meeting between Emma Robarts and Lady Kinnaird...

Building item

January 1877

A meeting between Emma Robarts and Lady Kinnaird resulted in the decision to merge the Prayer Circles or Unions started by the former with the Nurses' Home organized by the latter; the union became the...

Texts

Havergal, Frances Ridley. "Under His Shadow": The Last Poems of Frances Ridley Havergal. Editor Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, J. Nisbet, 1879.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Bruey. J. Nisbet, 1872.
Havergal, William Henry. Havergal’s Psalmody and Century of Chants. Editor Havergal, Frances Ridley, R. Cocks, 1871.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Letters by the Late Frances Ridley Havergal. Editor Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, Anson D. F. Randolph.
Havergal, Frances Ridley, and Baroness Helga von Cramm. Life Mosaic. J. Nisbet, 1879.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Little Pillows. J. Nisbet, 1875.
Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, and Frances Ridley Havergal. Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal. J. Nisbet, 1883.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Morning Bells. J. Nisbet, 1875.
Snepp, Charles, and Frances Ridley Havergal, editors. Songs of Grace and Glory. J. Nisbet, 1876.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. The Ministry of Song. J. Nisbet.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. The Ministry of Song. J. Nisbet, 1886.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Editor Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham, J. Nisbet, 1884.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Under the Surface. J. Nisbet, 1874.