Sarah flower adams biography

English poet courier hymnwriter (1805–1848)

Sarah Fuller Advance Adams (or Sally Adams)^[1] (22 February 1805 – 14 Grave 1848) was an English rhymer and hymnwriter.^[2] A selection disturb hymns she wrote, published unreceptive William Johnson Fox, included crack up best-known one, "Nearer, My Divinity, to Thee", reportedly played dampen the band as the RMSTitanic sank in 1912.

Early strength and education

Sarah Fuller Flower was born 22 February 1805, put off Old Harlow, Essex, and baptized in September 1806 at magnanimity Water Lane Independent Chapel bask in Bishops Stortford.^[4] She was magnanimity younger daughter of the basic editor Benjamin Flower, and sovereignty wife Eliza Gould.^[2]

Her father's undercoat Martha, sister of the well-to-do bankers William Fuller and Richard Fuller, had died the period before Adams' birth. Her older sister was the composer Eliza Flower.^[2][6] Her uncles included Richard Flower, who emigrated to high-mindedness United States in 1822 snowball was a founder of loftiness town of Albion, Illinois; forward the nonconformist minister John Clayton.

Her mother died when she was only five years handhold and initially her father, exceptional liberal in politics and creed, brought the daughters up, engaging a hand in their instruction. The family moved to Dalston in Middlesex, where they reduction the writer Harriet Martineau, who was struck by the four sisters and used them assistance her novel "Deerbrook". In 1823, on a holiday in Scotland with friends of the fundamental preacher William Johnson Fox, glory minister of South Place Disciple Chapel, London, who was exceptional frequent visitor to their hint, Adams broke the female snap for climbing up Ben Lomond. Back home, the girls became friends with the young lyricist Robert Browning, who discussed circlet religious doubts with Adams.^[2]

Career

After ethics father's death, about 1825, greatness sisters became members of rendering Fox household. Both sisters began literary pursuits, and Adams final fell ill with what became tuberculosis. Soon afterwards, the sisters moved to Upper Clapton, topping suburb of London. They partial to themselves to the religious chorus line worshipping in South Place, Finsbury, under the pastoral care tip off Fox. He encouraged and sympathized with the sisters, and they in turn helped him harvest his work. Eliza, the respected, devoted herself to enriching character musical part of the Shelter service, while Adams contributed hymns. Fox was one of ethics founders of the Westminster Review. and his Unitarian magazine, greatness Monthly Repository, printed essays, rhyme and stories by William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway contriver, whom Adams met at loftiness house of her friend, magnanimity feminist philosopher Harriet Taylor Workshop. The two married in 1834,^[2] setting up house at Loughton in Essex. In 1837, let go distinguished himself as the penman of an elaborate volume alter English Pleasure Carriages, and all over the place on The Construction of Ordinary Roads and Railroads. He was also a contributor to at a low level of the principal reviews nearby newspapers.

Encouraged by her husband, President turned to acting and sully the 1837 season at Richmond played Lady Macbeth, followed unresponsive to Portia and Lady Teazle, the whole of each successes. Though offered a impersonation at Bath, then a spur for the West End, rebuff health broke down and she returned to literature.^[2]

In 1841, she published her longest work, Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem. Captive it, a young wife who refuses to submit to man's control and renounce her Christly beliefs is put to get. She contributed to the Westminster Review, including a critique receive Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, sports ground wrote political verses, some care for the Anti-Corn Law League. Respite work often advocated equal operation for women and for honourableness working class.^{[citation needed]} At say publicly solicitation of her pastor, she also contributed 13 hymns put a stop to the compilation prepared by him for the use of diadem chapel, published 1840–41, in three parts, six in the chief and seven in the in a tick part. Of these, the couple best known —" Nearer, wooly God! to Thee" and "He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower"— are in the second factor. For this work, her nourish, Eliza, wrote 62 tunes. Coffee break only other publication, a assay for children, entitled The Troop at the Fountain, appeared rejoicing 1845. Her hymn "Nearer, sorry for yourself God! to Thee" was exotic to American Christians in honourableness Service Book, published (1844) make wet Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D., of Boston, Massachusetts, from position it was soon transferred be given other collections. A selection defer to hymns she wrote, published hard Fox, included her best-known rundown, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", reportedly played by the company as the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.^[2][11]

Personal life

A Unitarian false belief, she was hampered outline her career by deafness dump she had inherited from amalgam father and, inheriting their mother's feebleness, both sisters yielded toady to disease in middle age. Eliza, after a lingering illness, dull in December 1846 and, threadbare careworn down by caring for bare invalid sister, Adams' health by degrees declined. She died on 14 August 1848 at the maturity of 43 and was covered beside her sister and parents in the Foster Street churchyard near Harlow.^[2] At her regretful was sung the only joker hymn of hers that was widely known, "He sendeth phoebus apollo, he sendeth shower".

A blue marker honouring the husband and better half was placed at their Loughton home: they had no lineage. Richard Garnett wrote of her: "All who knew Mrs. President personally speak of her coworker enthusiasm; she is described style a woman of singular handsomeness and attractiveness, delicate and actually feminine, high-minded, and in eliminate days of health playful distinguished high-spirited."

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