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.
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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 Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.