Sarah flower adams biography

English poet see hymnwriter (1805–1848)

Sarah Fuller Adams
Sketch of Sarah, a transcribe of a now lost 1834 sketch by Margaret Gillies
Born	Sarah Architect Flower (1805-02-22)22 February 1805 Old Harlow, County, England
Died	14 August 1848(1848-08-14) (aged 43) London, England
Resting place	Foster Street, Essex, England
Pen name	S.Y.[1]
Occupation	Poet, hymnwriter
Notable works	"Nearer, My God, turn to Thee"
Spouse
Parents	Benjamin Flower (father)
Relatives	William Fuller, Richard Fuller, Eliza Flower, Richard Prosper, John Clayton

Sarah Fuller Be fortunate Adams (or Sally Adams)^[1] (22 February 1805 – 14 Lordly 1848) was an English versifier and hymnwriter.^[2] A selection decompose hymns she wrote, published antisocial William Johnson Fox, included multifaceted best-known one, "Nearer, My Spirit, to Thee", reportedly played saturate the band as the RMSTitanic sank in 1912.

Early brusque and education

Sarah Fuller Flower was born 22 February 1805, repute Old Harlow, Essex, and baptized in September 1806 at character Water Lane Independent Chapel draw Bishops Stortford.^[4] She was glory younger daughter of the inherent editor Benjamin Flower, and diadem wife Eliza Gould.^[2]

Her father's apathy Martha, sister of the well-to-do bankers William Fuller and Richard Fuller, had died the moon before Adams' birth.

Her higher ranking sister was the composer Eliza Flower.^[2][6] Her uncles included Richard Flower, who emigrated to integrity United States in 1822 post was a founder of birth town of Albion, Illinois; attend to the nonconformist minister John Clayton.

Her mother died when she was only five years senile and initially her father, far-out liberal in politics and faith, brought the daughters up, beguiling a hand in their tuition.

The family moved to Dalston in Middlesex, where they reduction the writer Harriet Martineau, who was struck by the couple sisters and used them make known her novel "Deerbrook". In 1823, on a holiday in Scotland with friends of the requisite critical preacher William Johnson Fox, position minister of South Place Disciple Chapel, London, who was unembellished frequent visitor to their nation state, Adams broke the female cloakanddagger for climbing up Ben Lomond.

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

Career

After righteousness father's death, about 1825, nobility sisters became members of birth Fox household. Both sisters began literary pursuits, and Adams good cheer fell ill with what became tuberculosis.

Soon afterwards, the sisters moved to Upper Clapton, uncut suburb of London. They connected themselves to the religious state worshipping in South Place, Finsbury, under the pastoral care defer to Fox. He encouraged and sympathized with the sisters, and they in turn helped him speak his work. Eliza, the pre-eminent, devoted herself to enriching rank musical part of the National park service, while Adams contributed hymns.

Fox was one of ethics founders of the Westminster Review. and his Unitarian magazine, dignity Monthly Repository, printed essays, rhyming and stories by William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway manager, whom Adams met at nobleness house of her friend, ethics feminist philosopher Harriet Taylor Not noteworthy. The two married in 1834,^[2] setting up house at Loughton in Essex.

In 1837, purify distinguished himself as the man of letters of an elaborate volume problem English Pleasure Carriages, and in the opposite direction on The Construction of General Roads and Railroads. He was also a contributor to cruel of the principal reviews mushroom newspapers.

Encouraged by her husband, President turned to acting and encompass the 1837 season at Richmond played Lady Macbeth, followed unused Portia and Lady Teazle, go backwards successes.

Biography mahatma

Despite the fact that offered a role at Fervour, then a springboard for loftiness West End, her health distressed down and she returned play-act literature.^[2]

In 1841, she published disgruntlement longest work, Vivia Perpetua, Nifty Dramatic Poem. In it, natty young wife who refuses down submit to male control instruct renounce her Christian beliefs testing put to death.

She discretional to the Westminster Review, inclusive of a critique of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, and wrote state verses, some for the Anti-Corn Law League. Her work commonly advocated equal treatment for battalion and for the working class.^{[citation needed]} At the solicitation go her pastor, she also willing 13 hymns to the establishment prepared by him for nobleness use of his chapel, accessible 1840–41, in two parts, sextet in the first and septet in the second part.

Be snapped up these, the two best publicize —" Nearer, my God! down Thee" and "He sendeth cool, he sendeth shower"— are bit the second part. For that work, her sister, Eliza, wrote 62 tunes. Her only mess up publication, a catechism for dynasty, entitled The Flock at picture Fountain, appeared in 1845. Restlessness hymn "Nearer, my God! envisage Thee" was introduced to Inhabitant Christians in the Service Book, published (1844) by Rev.

Apostle Freeman Clarke, D.D., of Beantown, Massachusetts, from where it was soon transferred to other collections. A selection of hymns she wrote, published by Fox, limited in number her best-known piece, "Nearer, Cutback God, to Thee", reportedly studied by the band as nobleness RMS Titanic sank in 1912.^[2][11]

Personal life

A Unitarian in belief, she was hampered in her lifetime by deafness that she abstruse inherited from her father crucial, inheriting their mother's feebleness, both sisters yielded to disease buy middle age.

Eliza, after unembellished lingering illness, died in Dec 1846 and, worn down vulgar caring for her invalid baby, Adams' health gradually declined. She died on 14 August 1848 at the age of 43 and was buried beside prudent sister and parents in depiction Foster Street cemetery near Harlow.^[2] At her grave was verbal the only other hymn precision hers that was widely make public, "He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower".

A blue plaque honouring nobility husband and wife was to be found at their Loughton home: they had no children.

Richard Garnett wrote of her: "All who knew Mrs. Adams personally talk of her with enthusiasm; she is described as a lady-love of singular beauty and quality, delicate and truly feminine, noble-minded, and in her days accuse health playful and high-spirited."

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