William Johnson Fox

Standard Name: Fox, William Johnson
Used Form: W. J. Fox

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Sarah Flower Adams
Her devout Unitarian upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press.
17-20
However, at the age of twenty she faced a spiritual crisis,
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
expressed in a letter written to her minister...
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.
20-1
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 5
SFA was strongly influenced by her father, Benjamin Flower ...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
In his Lectures, W. J. Fox compared her to Barrett Browning, praising SFA as the more politically sensitive
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
of the two.
Publishing Sarah Flower Adams
This was her longest work. An edition in 1893 was prefaced with a memoir by W. J. Fox 's daughter Eliza Bridell Fox .
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SFA protested at the Evangelical prejudice against the drama,
Mineka, Francis Edward. The Dissidence of Dissent: The Monthly Repository, 1806-38. University of North Carolina Press.
331
and...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
Fox describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 6
However, scholar Richard Garnett pronounced less...
Textual Features Sarah Flower Adams
This collection also includes the popular He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower, which was later sung at the funerals of both Sarah and her sister Eliza . The hymns were written for use in...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
In 1894, SFA 's poem A Summer Recollection was included in Moncure D. Conway 's Centenary History of the South Place Society based on Four Discourses given in the Chapel in May and June, 1893...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
The location of several other SFA poems owned by W. J. Fox is unknown.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 4
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Following the death of their father, Sarah Flower (later SFA ) and her sister Eliza were placed in the guardianship of the Reverend W. J. Fox , South Place Unitarian minister and editor of the...
Residence Sarah Flower Adams
SFA lived with her husband , her sister , and the Reverend W. J. Fox in Queen Square, Westminster.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press.
52, 64
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
SFA contributed lyrics for fourteen pieces to Hymns and Anthems, compiled by W. J. Fox ; this work includes the first printing of her most famous hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 6
Anthologization Sarah Flower Adams
Poems by SFA on political and social subjects, originally written for the Anti-Corn Law League , were printed in the fourth volume of W. J. Fox 's Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes the...
Occupation Robert Browning
RB began his literary career as a poet inauspiciously with Pauline (1833), but with Paracelsus (1835) began to achieve some critical success. He entered literary society under the patronage of W. J. Fox , and...
Textual Production Robert Browning
Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill in an annotated review copy that he had...

Timeline

3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...

National or international item

3 August 1832

In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith of Stanmore, Yorkshire.

Texts

Fox, William Johnson, and Sarah Flower Adams. Hymns and Anthems. Charles Fox, 1841.
Fox, William Johnson, and Sarah Flower Adams. Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes. C. Fox, 1849.