She was the third of seven children, and the second daughter. She had sisters named Catherine
, Eliza
and Anne
, and brothers, John
, Thomas William
, and Carbery
, who died in infancy.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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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.
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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Friends, Associates
Cecil Frances Alexander
In 1847, on a visit to her sister Anne
in Leamington, CFA
met the Vicar of Leeds, writer Walter Farquar Hook
.
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix.
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Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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Textual Features
Lady Charlotte Bury
The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope
but actually from Prior
: Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame.
Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Divorced. Henry Colburn, 1837, 2 vols.
title-page
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Textual Production
Cecil Frances Alexander
Among at least five titles published in 1848 by Cecil Frances Humphreys
, later CFA
, was Moral Songs, which appeared under the initials C. F. H. This volume went through several editions.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Texts
Humphreys, Anne. “Breaking Apart: the Early Victorian Divorce Novel”. Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question, edited by Nicola Diane Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 42-59.