Eliza Flower

Standard Name: Flower, Eliza

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Education Sarah Flower Adams
In Harriet Martineau 's fictional account Sarah and her sister received an erratic
qtd. in
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
19
education from Harlow village teachers and their father. As she described it, they were given bible lessons, and travelled frequently as...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Her mother , who had been frequently ill, died while Sarah Flower (later SFA ) was still a child.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
9, 16
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.
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Following the death of their father, Sarah Flower (later SFA ) and her sister Eliza were placed in the guardianship of the Reverend W. J. Fox , South Place Unitarian minister and editor of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
SFA 's sister, Eliza Flower , died of consumption.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Eliza Flower
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
64
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 7
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Sarah's mother, Eliza (Gould) Flower , gave up her Devon school rather than withdraw support for the radical Cambridge Intelligencer, whose editor, Benjamin Flower , she later married.
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.
Eliza supported her husband's commitment to free speech.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Eliza Flower , Sarah's elder sister, was a musician and composer.
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.
Her compositions frequently accompanied her sister's hymn texts.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 5
She also became a radical and a feminist, and lived with W. J. Fox...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Flower Adams
Harriet Martineau supposedly based the Ibbotson girls in Deerbrook, on the lives of Sarah and Eliza Flower.
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.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
19
Eliza Bridell-Fox (W. J. Fox's daughter and a particularly close friend of Sarah's sister Eliza Flower)...
Friends, Associates Harriet Taylor
HT 's husband introduced her to the UnitarianMonthly Repository circle which included Harriet Martineau , Eliza and Sarah Flower , and the Rev. William Fox .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
103
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.
Leisure and Society Sarah Flower Adams
At the time, she, her sister , and her father were accompanying W. J. Fox , who had been asked to preach in Edinburgh.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
20-1
Residence Sarah Flower Adams
SFA lived with her husband , her sister , and the Reverend W. J. Fox in Queen Square, Westminster.
Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922.
52, 64
Textual Features Sarah Flower Adams
This collection also includes the popular He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower, which was later sung at the funerals of both Sarah and her sister Eliza . The hymns were written for use in...
Textual Production Sarah Flower Adams
After its publication, she stopped writing; her silence has been attributed to her sorrow for the death of her sister Eliza in December 1846.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 7
In a later edition of The Flock at the...

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