In February 1879, FRH
received a pressing proposal of marriage and she reportedly found it difficult to refuse the pure and holy love laid at her feet.
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...
Textual Production
Frances Ridley Havergal
It is rather difficult to track the history of FRH
's musical and poetic writings, since her compositions appeared in a variety of forms both during her life and afterwards. Janet Grierson
notes that many...