Alexander
's esteem for his wife is reflected in his Preface to her Poems, where he writes that while his beloved had no pretension whatever to regular beauty, she possessed the sensitive susceptibility...
Literary responses
Cecil Frances Alexander
Biographer Ernest Lovell
remarks that the universal appeal of CFA
's hymns is owing to her understanding that there need be no antipathy between loyalty to a doctrine of the Church which is catholic in...
Occupation
Cecil Frances Alexander
Following her introduction to James Smith
, CFA
founded a Church Missionary Society
auxiliary which, according to biographer Ernest Lovell
, was something of an innovation in an Irish country parish.
Lovell, Ernest William O’Malley. A Green Hill Far Away: A Life of Mrs. C.F. Alexander. Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1970.
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Lovell, Ernest William O’Malley. A Green Hill Far Away: A Life of Mrs. C.F. Alexander. Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1970.