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Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford)[1] was an English fiction writer and poet. She is best known for her children's literature and her hymns.

Sarah Doudney (an inscription signed by Doudney appears beneath the portrait engraving).
Sarah Doudney (an inscription signed by Doudney appears beneath the portrait engraving).

Family and life


Doudney's father ran a candle and soap-making business. One of her uncles was the evangelical clergyman David Alfred Doudney, editor of The Gospel Magazine and Old Jonathan.[1] Doudney was educated at a school for French girls, and started to write poetry and prose as a child. "The Lesson of the Water-Mill", written when she was 15 and published in the Anglican Churchman's Family Magazine (1864), became a well-known song in Britain and the United States. Doudney continued to live with her parents near Catherington until she was 30.

Doudney's first novel, Under Grey Walls, appeared in 1871. Success came with her third, Archie's Old Desk, in 1872. In the 1881 census Doudney described herself as a "Writer for Monthly Journals".[2] She contributed poetry and fiction to periodicals that included Dickens's All the Year Round, the Churchman's Shilling Magazine,[1] the Religious Tract Society's Girl's Own Paper, The Sunday Magazine, Good Words and The Quiver.[2] By 1891, when she described herself in the census as a novelist, she had written about 35 novels.[2] Most of these were written for young girls, but she also wrote some for adults. Many of them end tragically, but look forward to happiness after death. Anna Cavaye, or, The Ugly Princess tells of a dying child comforted by knowing she has brought other people together.[3]

Doudney's hymns include The Christian's Good Night, set by Ira D. Sankey in 1884 and sung at Charles Spurgeon's funeral.[2]

Sarah's mother Lucy Doudney died in 1891 and her father in 1893. Sarah Doudney then moved to Oxford, where she died in December 1926.[4]


Selected works



See also


English women hymnwriters (18th–19th centuries)

References


  1. Charlotte Mitchell, "Doudney, Sarah (1841–1926)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2005, retrieved 11 July 2008
  2. "Sarah Doudney (1841–1926)". Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (eds): The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. (London, Batsford, 1990).
  4. Web Archive biography: "Retrieved 6 December 2011". Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
  5. Additional titles, corrections etc. from Doudney's ODNB entry; booksellers' catalogues; the British Library Integrated Catalogue: Retrieved 6 December 2011; Web Archive list: Retrieved 6 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2009).


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