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Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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Short Name: Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Full Name: Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906
Birth Year: 1815
Death Year: 1906

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, writer of a number of novels (Cleve Hall, &c), is the author of "O Saviour! when Thy loving hand" (For use at Sea), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. She was born in 1815.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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