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Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower › Texts

Short Name: Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower
Full Name: Hornblower, Jane Elizabeth Roscoe, 1787-1853
Birth Year: 1797
Death Year: 1853

Roscoe, Jane, a second daughter of William Roscoe, was born in 1797, married to Francis Hornblower in 1838, and died in 1853. Her Poems by one of the Authors of Poems for Youth by a Family Circle were published in 1820, and her Poems in 1843, Her hymns in common use are:—

1. How rich the blessings, O my God. Gratitude. In the Liverpool Kenshaw Street Collection 1818.
2. My Father, when around me spread. Peace in Affliction. Appeared in the Monthly Repository, Dec, 1828; and the Sacred Offering, 1832.
3. O God, to Thee, Who first hast given. Self-Consecration. In Poems for Youth, 1820.
4. Thy will be done, I will not fear. Resignation.
[Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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