Anne Humphreys

Standard Name: Humphreys, Anne

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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.
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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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...
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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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.
197
Her husband William Alexander wrote in the Preface to her...
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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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.