Ira David Sankey

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...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

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

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

This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey , who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem.The standard 1892 edition of John Julian 's...

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton , was quoted as calling Kittythe best novel I have ever read, and as demanding about the character Polly Cornford, Where on earth . . . did you...

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...

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...