Elizabeth Ayton Godwin
Elizabeth Ayton Godwin (4 July 1817 – 26 March 1889) was a Victorian era Christian hymn writer and religious poet.[1] She was born at Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk, England, 4 July 1817. Her father was William Ellis Etheridge. In 1849, she married Mr. C. Godwin. She published Songs for the weary in 1873; and Songs amidst Daily Life in 1878. Her hymn in common use is "My Saviour, 'mid life's varied scene" (Lent), written while still a girl, and first printed in the Evangelical Magazine, and then in Songs for the Weary, 1865. She died at Stoke Bishop, 26 March 1889.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- Songs for the Weary: the School of Sorrow and other Poems (1873)
- Songs Amidst Daily Life (1878)
References
[edit]- ^ Gray, F. Elizabeth (10 September 2009). Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-135-23794-3. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ Julian, John (1892). A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations, with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English-speaking Countries and Now in Common Use . Murray. p. 1567. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
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