Английская Википедия:A. Flowerdew
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox writer A. Flowerdew (1759 – 23 September 1830) was an English teacher, religious poet and hymnist. Her main work was Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects (1867). She died in 1830.
Early life
Alice (sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Anne") Flowerdew was born in 1759, in Bury St. Edmunds, England.Шаблон:Sfn Her maiden name is not known.Шаблон:Sfn She was erroneously referred to as "Anne" by Sir Roundell Palmer and other authorities,Шаблон:Sfn an error that a living descendant corrected.Шаблон:Sfn
Career
She was the second wife of Daniel Flowerdew,Шаблон:Sfn who for a few years held a government customs appointment in Jamaica. After he had resigned that position in slave-owning Jamaica and requested other employment,Шаблон:Sfn the couple returned to England with relief at the end of the 19th century.Шаблон:Sfn[1]
After losing her husband in 1801, the widowed Flowerdew kept a ladies' boarding school in Islington, where she wrote most of her poetry. In 1802, her stepson, Charles Frederic Flowerdew, also died.[2] While living in Islington, she attended the ministry of the Rev. Dr John Evans, author of A Sketch of the Several Religious Denominations (1795) and some other works. He was Minister of the General Baptist Church, Worship Street, London, and an Arian. Flowerdew is said to have held the same views.Шаблон:Sfn Some time between 1806 and 1811, she moved her school to Bury St Edmunds[1] and became a member of the Bury "Glasshouse" congregation.[2]
Writings
In 1803, Flowerdew published by subscription a volume entitled Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects,Шаблон:Sfn which was sold through her friend Henry Delahoy Symonds[3] and through Martha Gurney.[2] Some lines praised Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for her struggle to establish smallpox inoculation, and her subscribers included Edward Jenner, who had devised it. In her preface dated 24 May 1803, she notes that they were "written at different periods of life — some indeed at a very early age, and others under the very severe Pressure of Misfortune, when my pen had frequently given that relief which could not be derived from other employments."Шаблон:Sfn A second edition appeared in 1804.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Quote box
Further poems and a preface on female education were added to a third edition,[1] where there appeared her well-known harvest hymn, "Fountain of mercy, God of love". This is sometimes attributed to John Needham and was probably altered from a hymn by him (1768). It is believed by a relative of Flowerdew to have been written before 1810, and other relatives and friends of the family are agreed in ascribing it to her.Шаблон:Sfn By comparing it with Needham's hymns, it will be seen to be superior especially in form. Relatives and friends of the family are agreed in ascribing it to her.Шаблон:Sfn She wrote other pieces later, but these were not published in a collected form.Шаблон:Sfn
Death
Flowerdew eventually moved to Ipswich. She died in Whitton on 23 September 1830Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn and was buried in the churchyard there. Her tomb reads: "Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Alice Flowerdew, who died September 23, 1830, aged 71 years."Шаблон:Sfn She was survived by a grandson, J. D. McKenzie, of St. Albans.Шаблон:Sfn
Selected works
- Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects (1867)
References
Attribution
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Bibliography
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 381.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
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