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FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL (1836-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIDLEY See also:HAVERGAL (1836-1879)  , See also:English hymn-writer, (See also:laughter of the Rev . See also:William See also:Henry See also:Havergal, was See also:born at See also:Astley, See also:Worcestershire, on the 14th of See also:December 1836 . At the See also:age of seven she began to write See also:verse, most of it of a religious See also:character . As a hymn-writer she was particularly successful, and the See also:modern English See also:Church collections include several of her compositions . Her collected Poetical See also:Works were published in 1884 . She died at Caswell See also:Bay, See also:Swansea, on the 3rd of See also:June 1870 . See Memorials of Frances See also:Ridley Havergal (1880), by her See also:sister .

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