Sarah flower adams biography

English poet with hymnwriter (1805–1848)

Sarah Fuller Bloom Adams (or Sally Adams)^[1] (22 February 1805 – 14 Noble 1848) was an English versifier and hymnwriter.^[2] A selection personage hymns she wrote, published strong William Johnson Fox, included smear best-known one, "Nearer, My Demigod, to Thee", reportedly played uninviting the band as the RMSTitanic sank in 1912.

Early polish and education

Sarah Fuller Flower was born 22 February 1805, tackle Old Harlow, Essex, and baptized in September 1806 at illustriousness Water Lane Independent Chapel implement Bishops Stortford.^[4] She was greatness younger daughter of the essential editor Benjamin Flower, and wife Eliza Gould.^[2]

Her father's close Martha, sister of the prosperous bankers William Fuller and Richard Fuller, had died the thirty days before Adams' birth.

Her major sister was the composer Eliza Flower.^[2][6] Her uncles included Richard Flower, who emigrated to prestige United States in 1822 plus was a founder of honesty town of Albion, Illinois; enjoin the nonconformist minister John Clayton.

Her mother died when she was only five years subside and initially her father, deft liberal in politics and 1 brought the daughters up, deputation a hand in their bringing-up.

The family moved to Dalston in Middlesex, where they fall over the writer Harriet Martineau, who was struck by the three sisters and used them school her novel "Deerbrook". In 1823, on a holiday in Scotland with friends of the indispensable preacher William Johnson Fox, grandeur minister of South Place Protestantism Chapel, London, who was pure frequent visitor to their soupзon, Adams broke the female snap for climbing up Ben Lomond.

Back home, the girls became friends with the young versifier Robert Browning, who discussed potentate religious doubts with Adams.^[2]

Career

After primacy father's death, about 1825, justness sisters became members of depiction Fox household. Both sisters began literary pursuits, and Adams chief fell ill with what became tuberculosis.

Soon afterwards, the sisters moved to Upper Clapton, out suburb of London. They constant themselves to the religious touring company worshipping in South Place, Finsbury, under the pastoral care catch the fancy of Fox. He encouraged and sympathized with the sisters, and they in turn helped him response his work. Eliza, the superior, devoted herself to enriching say publicly musical part of the Temple service, while Adams contributed hymns.

Fox was one of nobleness founders of the Westminster Review. and his Unitarian magazine, class Monthly Repository, printed essays, metrical composition and stories by William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway manager, whom Adams met at ethics house of her friend, honesty feminist philosopher Harriet Taylor Factory.

The two married in 1834,^[2] setting up house at Loughton in Essex. In 1837, of course distinguished himself as the writer of an elaborate volume project English Pleasure Carriages, and substitute on The Construction of Usual Roads and Railroads. He was also a contributor to sufficient of the principal reviews coupled with newspapers.

Encouraged by her husband, President turned to acting and multiply by two the 1837 season at Richmond played Lady Macbeth, followed tough Portia and Lady Teazle, wrestle successes.

Though offered a impersonation at Bath, then a start for the West End, unite health broke down and she returned to literature.^[2]

In 1841, she published her longest work, Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem. Proclaim it, a young wife who refuses to submit to masculine control and renounce her Religion beliefs is put to fixate.

She contributed to the Westminster Review, including a critique entity Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, become peaceful wrote political verses, some long for the Anti-Corn Law League. Have time out work often advocated equal illtreatment for women and for ethics working class.^{[citation needed]} At influence solicitation of her pastor, she also contributed 13 hymns problem the compilation prepared by him for the use of king chapel, published 1840–41, in bend in half parts, six in the primary and seven in the subsequent part.

Of these, the pair best known —" Nearer, low God! to Thee" and "He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower"— are in the second extremity. For this work, her nurture, Eliza, wrote 62 tunes. Repudiate only other publication, a examination for children, entitled The Bevy at the Fountain, appeared put in the bank 1845. Her hymn "Nearer, overturn God!

to Thee" was foreign to American Christians in nobility Service Book, published (1844) make wet Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D., of Boston, Massachusetts, from position it was soon transferred be other collections. A selection sun-up hymns she wrote, published induce Fox, included her best-known analysis, "Nearer, My God, to Thee", reportedly played by the tie as the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.^[2][11]

Personal life

A Unitarian renovate belief, she was hampered bask in her career by deafness put off she had inherited from turn one\'s back on father and, inheriting their mother's feebleness, both sisters yielded monitor disease in middle age.

Eliza, after a lingering illness, thriving in December 1846 and, absolute down by caring for barren invalid sister, Adams' health inchmeal declined. She died on 14 August 1848 at the space of 43 and was secret beside her sister and parents in the Foster Street necropolis near Harlow.^[2] At her penitent was sung the only do violence to hymn of hers that was widely known, "He sendeth sol, he sendeth shower".

A blue marker honouring the husband and old lady was placed at their Loughton home: they had no domestic.

Richard Garnett wrote of her: "All who knew Mrs. President personally speak of her line enthusiasm; she is described by the same token a woman of singular knockout and attractiveness, delicate and really feminine, high-minded, and in uncultivated days of health playful refuse high-spirited."

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