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, 1990.
William Alexander
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Standard Name: Alexander, William,, 1824 - 1911
Used Form: the Primate of Ireland
Connections
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Cultural formation | Cecil Frances Alexander | 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... |
Cultural formation | Cecil Frances Alexander | In 1848CFA
met British novelist Charlotte Yonge
and the leader of the Oxford Movement
, John Keble
. |
death | Cecil Frances Alexander | The streets were thronged with crowds of people to witness the funeral procession for the beloved of the poor. qtd. in Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xxi The Cyber Hymnal. http://www.cyberhymnal.org. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | Cecil Frances Humphreys
married the Rev.William Alexander
at Strabane Church, Strabane, County Tyrone. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 32, 99, 101 Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. viii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
's widower William Alexander
became the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, a position he held until his death in 1911. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 181 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | Also a follower of the Oxford Movement
, Alexander
was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet. McMahon, Séan. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”. Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 , No. 4, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1995, pp. 101-9. 102 Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 101, 110-11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | Alexander
's esteem for his wife is reflected in his Preface to her Poems, where he writes that while his beloved had no pretension whatever to regular beauty, she possessed the sensitive susceptibility... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | William
and Cecil Frances Alexander
had four children. 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, 1990. |
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, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. vii Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 197 |
Occupation | Cecil Frances Alexander | While CFA
's husband
was rector of the parish of Termonamongan, from 1850-1855, she carried out ministrations of condolence, counsel, [and] charitable help. qtd. in Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. x Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 101 |
Occupation | Cecil Frances Alexander | Her husband
wrote that CFA
possessed a quality which seemed to be excluded from the ethics of literary people, even when they are religious—the grace of humility. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xv |
politics | Cecil Frances Alexander | From 1867-1869, CFA
and her husband
resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xiii Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xiv |
Residence | Cecil Frances Alexander | From 1867-1896CFA
's husband
was the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. He held his seat at Londonderry, until the year following her death. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 147 |
Residence | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
's husband
was the rector of Camus-juxta-Mourne, Strabane, County Tyrone. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 126-7, 142 |
Residence | Cecil Frances Alexander | Following the birth of their first two children, CFA
and her husband
relocated to St Mura, Fahan, Donegal following his appointment as rector of that parish. They remained there between 1855-1860. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 119 |
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Texts
Alexander, Cecil Frances. Poems. Editor Alexander, William, 1824 - 1911, Macmillan, 1896.
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix.