Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
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Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (22 February 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet.
She was born at High Street, Old Harlow, Essex, younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor[1] and the sister of composer Eliza Flower.[2] Her longest work is Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem (1841), having as its subject the life of the early Christians.
Mrs. Adams was the author of several hymns, among which are "Nearer, my God, to Thee" and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." She was a Unitarian.
In 1834 she married William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway engineer. They lived at Loughton, Essex, where there is a blue plaque to the couple. She died from tuberculosis at the age of 43 and was buried at Harlow on 21 August 1848.[1]
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- ^ a b John Julian D.D., A Dictionary of Hymnology, Second Edition, John Murray, 1907.
- ^ Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell (1853). Woman's Record; Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning .... Harper & brothers. pp. 874. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=13UEAAAAYAAJ.
[edit] References
- H. W. Stephenson, The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee, 1922
- H. W. Stephenson, Unitarian Hymn-Writers, 1931
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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