Anne Humphreys

Standard Name: Humphreys, Anne

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Birth Cecil Frances Alexander
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.
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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.
Lovell, Ernest William O’Malley. A Green Hill Far Away: A Life of Mrs. C.F. Alexander. Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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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 Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
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Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
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Her husband William Alexander wrote in the Preface to her...
Occupation Cecil Frances Alexander
With her sister Anne , Cecil Frances Humphreys (later CFA ) began teaching children with hearing disabilities in Strabane, County Tyrone.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
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Occupation Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA with her sister Anne founded the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
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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.
title-page
A news-item printed in the preliminary pages, allegedly from the Morning Post of...
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Humphreys, Anne. Henry Mayhew. Twayne, 1984.