Ira David Sankey

Standard Name: Sankey, Ira David

Connections

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Cultural formation Edna Lyall
Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...
Cultural formation Annie Louisa Walker
Coming from a professional but not wealthy rank among the middle classes, she seems to have had to contribute to the family income, by teaching and writing, even before her parents' deaths. A student at...
Education Marie Belloc Lowndes
In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew , a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Carswell
CC 's father, George Gray Macfarlane , had worked as a young man in the Caribbean and the USA. He exported textiles to the West Indies and was president and a founder of the YMCA
Reception Cecil Frances Alexander
This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey , who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem.
McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, pp. 101-9.
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The standard 1892 edition of John Julian 's...
Reception Matilda Betham-Edwards
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , was quoted as calling Kittythe best novel I have ever read,
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
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and as demanding about the character Polly Cornford, Where on earth . . . did you...
Textual Features Annie Louisa Walker
Another poem in this collection, The Night Cometh, became used, without ALW 's permission, as the well-known hymn Work, for the Night is Coming. (Both titles come from words attributed to Jesus in...
Textual Production Charlotte Elliott
It is hard or impossible to date either the composition or first publication of CE 's most famous work, the hymn Just as I am—without one plea. She is generally said to have composed...

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Texts

Sankey, Ira David. My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns. Sunday School Times Company, 1907.