1836 - 1907 Person Name: Mrs Harry Coghill Author of "Sleeping neath the gentle snow" Coghill, Annie Louisa, nĂ©e Walker, daughter of Robert Walker, was born at Kiddermore, StaffordÂshire, 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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