Jan 2, 2010
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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
).
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