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ANNE STEELE (1717-1778)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNE See also:STEELE (1717-1778)  , See also:English hymn writer, was See also:born at See also:Broughton, See also:Hampshire, in 1717 . The drowning of her betrothed a few See also:hours before the See also:time fixed for her See also:marriage deeply affected an otherwise quiet See also:life, and her See also:hymns rather emphasize the less optimistic phases of See also:Christian experience . In 1760 she published Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional un/ler the name " See also:Theodosia," and her See also:complete See also:works (144 hymns, 34 metrical See also:psalms and 50 moral poems) appeared in one See also:volume in See also:London (1863) . She was a Baptist, and her hymns are much used by members of that communion, though some of them, e.g . " See also:Father of mercies, in Thy word," have found their way into the collections of other Churches . She has been called the Frances See also:Ridley See also:Havergal of the 18th See also:century .

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