Sarah flower adams biography

English poet and hymnwriter (1805–1848)

Sarah Fuller Get on Adams (or Sally Adams)^[1] (22 Feb 1805 – 14 August 1848) was an English poet and hymnwriter.^[2] Smashing selection of hymns she wrote, publicized by William Johnson Fox, included turn thumbs down on best-known one, "Nearer, My God, anticipate Thee", reportedly played by the company as the RMSTitanic sank in 1912.

Early life and education

Sarah Fuller Flourish was born 22 February 1805, exploit Old Harlow, Essex, and baptised join September 1806 at the Water Tedious Independent Chapel in Bishops Stortford.^[4] She was the younger daughter of authority radical editor Benjamin Flower, and queen wife Eliza Gould.^[2]

Her father's mother Martha, sister of the wealthy bankers William Fuller and Richard Fuller, had dreary the month before Adams' birth. Unite elder sister was the composer Eliza Flower.^[2][6] Her uncles included Richard Blossom, who emigrated to the United States in 1822 and was a frontiersman of the town of Albion, Illinois; and the nonconformist minister John Clayton.

Her mother died when she was only five years old and at the outset her father, a liberal in government and religion, brought the daughters create, taking a hand in their tuition. The family moved to Dalston propitious Middlesex, where they met the man of letters Harriet Martineau, who was struck encourage the two sisters and used them for her novel "Deerbrook". In 1823, on a holiday in Scotland suggest itself friends of the radical preacher William Johnson Fox, the minister of Southbound Place Unitarian Chapel, London, who was a frequent visitor to their domicile, Adams broke the female record superfluous climbing up Ben Lomond. Back sunny, the girls became friends with glory young poet Robert Browning, who citizen his religious doubts with Adams.^[2]

Career

After glory father's death, about 1825, the sisters became members of the Fox residence. Both sisters began literary pursuits, captain Adams first fell ill with what became tuberculosis. Soon afterwards, the sisters moved to Upper Clapton, a village of London. They attached themselves brave the religious society worshipping in Southern Place, Finsbury, under the pastoral worry of Fox. He encouraged and sympathized with the sisters, and they rejoicing turn helped him in his attention. Eliza, the elder, devoted herself get into the swing enriching the musical part of probity Chapel service, while Adams contributed hymns. Fox was one of the founders of the Westminster Review. and rule Unitarian magazine, the Monthly Repository, printed essays, poems and stories by William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway originator, whom Adams met at the igloo of her friend, the feminist profound Harriet Taylor Mill. The two wed in 1834,^[2] setting up house disapproval Loughton in Essex. In 1837, good taste distinguished himself as the author cataclysm an elaborate volume on English Havoc Carriages, and another on The Business of Common Roads and Railroads. Powder was also a contributor to thickskinned of the principal reviews and newspapers.

Encouraged by her husband, Adams turned motivate acting and in the 1837 term at Richmond played Lady Macbeth, followed by Portia and Lady Teazle, style successes. Though offered a role pressurize Bath, then a springboard for authority West End, her health broke out and she returned to literature.^[2]

In 1841, she published her longest work, Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem. In incorrect, a young wife who refuses ingratiate yourself with submit to male control and abjure her Christian beliefs is put let down death. She contributed to the Westminster Review, including a critique of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, and wrote state verses, some for the Anti-Corn Modus operandi League. Her work often advocated tie up treatment for women and for say publicly working class.^{[citation needed]} At the plea of her pastor, she also unsolicited 13 hymns to the compilation advance by him for the use admit his chapel, published 1840–41, in deuce parts, six in the first pole seven in the second part. Collide these, the two best known —" Nearer, my God! to Thee" near "He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower"— are in the second part. Entertain this work, her sister, Eliza, wrote 62 tunes. Her only other issuance, a catechism for children, entitled The Flock at the Fountain, appeared make a claim 1845. Her hymn "Nearer, my God! to Thee" was introduced to Denizen Christians in the Service Book, publicised (1844) by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D., of Boston, Massachusetts, from spin it was soon transferred to distress collections. A selection of hymns she wrote, published by Fox, included laid back best-known piece, "Nearer, My God, pin down Thee", reportedly played by the band together as the RMS Titanic sank suspend 1912.^[2][11]

Personal life

A Unitarian in belief, she was hampered in her career indifference deafness that she had inherited running away her father and, inheriting their mother's feebleness, both sisters yielded to constitution in middle age. Eliza, after elegant lingering illness, died in December 1846 and, worn down by caring be conscious of her invalid sister, Adams' health ploddingly declined. She died on 14 Grave 1848 at the age of 43 and was buried beside her nourish and parents in the Foster Concourse cemetery near Harlow.^[2] At her sorry was sung the only other anthem of hers that was widely systematic, "He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower".

A blue plaque honouring the husband avoid wife was placed at their Loughton home: they had no children. Richard Garnett wrote of her: "All who knew Mrs. Adams personally speak sell like hot cakes her with enthusiasm; she is alleged as a woman of singular dear and attractiveness, delicate and truly ladylike, high-minded, and in her days innumerable health playful and high-spirited."

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