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Female Hymn Writers Pre 20th Century?
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I’m thinking on writing a blog on female hymn writers and the only ones I can think of that are pre twentieth century are Hildegarde of Bingen and Julia Howe Ward.
I did do a Google and found a list of Methodist Hymn writers.
However I would really like to include Female Hymn writers who are not just Protestant. I would like to have a variety Catholic Protestant and Orthodox and pre 20th century please!
People who composed their own lyrics not just translations and also whose hymns are so well known they cross denominations?
Ideas anyone?
3 Comments so far
Elizabeth Charles was a female hymn writer that was PRE 20th century !
Sarah Fuller Fowler Adams (1805-1841, “Nearer My God To Thee”) – Unitarian
Elizabeth Charles (1828-1896, “Never Further Than Thy Cross,” etc.) – Anglican
Frances Ridley Havergal (1835-1879, “Thy Life for Me”)- Anglican
Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-1883, setting of “The Lord is my Shepherd”) – Church of Scotland
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894, “In the Bleak Midwinter,” etc.) – Anglo-Catholic Church of England
Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865, “Active Piety,”
etc.)
Eliza Roxcy Snow (1804-1887, “O My Father”) – Church of Latter-Day Saints
Medieval hymnists tend (like medieval artists) to be anonymous, but several medieval hymns and religious songs have a feminine flavour: the Coventry Carol, for example (”Lullay thou little tiny child”).
Christians and protestants (Anabaptists, separatists or whatever you want to call the sect) are the only hymn writers.
Check out Fanny Crosby. She is probably one of the biggest female hymn writer ever.