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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. 3 |
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 | |
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. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, pp. 101-9. 108 |
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. 126 |
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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