Katherine Hankey
Arabella Katherine Hankey (12 January 1834 – 9 May 1911)
Biography
Hankey was born in 1834, the daughter of a prosperous banker in
nurse in South Africa, assisting her brother.[2]
In 1866, she had a serious illness and was bedridden for a long convalescence.[3] During this time, Hankey wrote her long poem, titled Tell me the Old, Old Story of unseen things above,[4] with 50 verses in two parts: The Story Wanted and The Story Told.[2] Hankey's masterpiece was put to music by the American composer William Howard Doane.
She recovered from the illness and lived to the age of 77, dying in 1911.[citation needed]
See also
- English women hymnwriters (18th to 19th-century)
References
- ^ Arabella Katherine Hankey Archived 22 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, CyberHymnal.org
- ^ a b c Warren Shiver (9 November 2007), Stories Behind The Hymns, The Gaffney Ledger
- ^ a b "Arabella Katherine Hankey". Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
- ^ Tell Me the Old, Old Story, retrieved 2 June 2015
External links
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