Sarah Flower (later SFA
) suffered the death of her father
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Benjamin Flower
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Flower Adams
Sarah's mother, Eliza (Gould) Flower
, gave up her Devon school rather than withdraw support for the radical Cambridge Intelligencer, whose editor, Benjamin Flower
, she later married.
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.
Eliza supported her husband's commitment to free speech.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Flower Adams
Sarah' s father, Benjamin Flower
, was a political writer, a religious dissenter, and the editor and publisher of the Cambridge Intelligencer, which first published six of Coleridge
's early poems. In 1799 he...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Flower Adams
As her father
established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton
, John Stuart Mill
, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Flower Adams
These contributions appeared under the pseudonym S. Y., which Eliza Bridell Fox
claims indicated her pet name Sally to her personal friends.
qtd. in
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 5
SFA
was strongly influenced by her father, Benjamin Flower
...
Leisure and Society
Sarah Flower Adams
At the time, she, her sister
, and her father
were accompanying W. J. Fox
, who had been asked to preach in Edinburgh.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.