“I have not attempted to write down to the children, but to write up to…” — Cecil Frances Alexander

“I have not attempted to write down to the children, but to write up to them.”

Expressing her respect for children’s spiritual and intellectual capacity · Preface to Hymns for Little Children (1848)

About Cecil Frances Alexander

14 April 1818–12 October 1895

Cecil Frances Alexander, born Cecil Frances Humphreys on 14 April 1818 and dead on 12 October 1895, became one of the most widely sung and influential hymn writers of the nineteenth century. Her name may be less immediately familiar than the opening lines of her best-known hymns, yet “Once in Royal David’s City,” “All…

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