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Mrs. Harry Coghill

Short Name: Mrs. Harry Coghill
Full Name: Coghill, Harry, Mrs., 1836-1907
Birth Year (est.): 1836
Death Year: 1907

Coghill, Annie Louisa, née Walker, daughter of Robert Walker, was born at Kiddermore, Stafford­shire, in 1836, and married Harry Coghill in 1884. During a residence for some time in Canada several of her poetical pieces were printed in the Canadian newspapers. These were gathered together and published c. 1859 in her Leaves from the Backwoods. In addition to novels, plays for children, and magazine work, she edited the Autobiography and Letters of her cousin, Mrs. Oliphant, in 1898. Her popular hymn,"Work, for the night is coming," p. 317, ii., was written in Canada in 1854, and published in a Canadian newspaper, from which it passed, without any acknowledgement of the authorship, into Ira D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos. Authorized text in her Oak and Maple, 1890, p. 17.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Mrs. Harry Coghill (18)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Arbejd, thi Natten kommerAnna Louisa Walker Coghill (Author)1
Auf, denn die Nacht wird kommenAnnie L. Walker (Author)German18
Covered with snow neath the mantle of whiteMrs Harry Coghill (Author)English3
Dès que l'aube déposeAnne Coghill (Author)French0
Działaj, bo noc nadejdzieAnna Louisa Coghill (Author)Polish1
Faru laboron nune jam en la vivmaten’;Mrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Esperanto1
Grand is the song of the Easter mornAnna Louise Walker Coghill (Author)English4
Hana, e po mai anaMrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Hawaiian1
Haya! Usiku wajaMrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Swahili1
Kazi tufanye sasaMrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Swahili0
Mãos ao trabalho, crentesMrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Portuguese4
O! miasa, sakaizaAnnie L. W. Coghill (Author)Malagasy1
Pronto la noche vieneAnnie Louise Coghill (Author)Spanish7
രാത്രിയിതാ വ-രു-ന്നു (Rātriyitā va-ru-nnu)Mrs. Harry Coghill (Author)Malayalam1
She is gone, our precious darlingAnna Louisa Walker Coghill (Author)English1
Verka, ty natten kommerA. L. Walker (Author)Swedish4
Werk, want de nacht zal komenMrs. Harry Coghill (1854) (Author)Dutch0
Work, for the night is coming; Work through the morning hoursAnna L. Coghill (Author)English797

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