A century later, the writer Kate O'Brien
told a probably apocryphal story about the Alexander family's ecumenism. The Viceroy of Ireland, she says, wanted to have a strictly private and apparently casual word in confidence...
Family and Intimate relationships
Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA
gave birth to her first daughter, Eleanor Jane Alexander
, at Fahan, Donegal; she had another difficult delivery.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.