Adams, Sarah Flower

Adams, Sarah Flower ( 1805 – 48 ),
poet, born in Essex, the daughter of a radical journalist, Benjamin Flower, and brought up as a Unitarian: after her father's death in 1829 she lived for some years in the family circle of W. J. Fox , to whose Monthly Repository she contributed. She wrote a historical verse drama about martyrdom, Vivia Perpetua ( 1841 ), but is remembered as a writer of hymns , which include ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’ ( c. 1834 ).