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.
English fiction and children's writer, 1841–1926
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
The Angels of Christmas, 1870
Harvest Hymn, 1870
Psalms of Life, 1871. A collection of 60 hymns.
Under Gray Walls, 1871
Faith Harrowby: Or the Smugglers' Cave, 1871
Archie's Old Desk, 1872
Self-pleasing. A New Year's Address to Senior Scholars, 1872
The Beautiful Island, and Other Stories (the other stories by other authors), 1872
Loser and Gainer, 1873
Janet Darney. A Tale of Fisher-life in Thale Bay, 1873
Wave upon Wave, 1873
Marion's Three Crowns, 1873
The Cottage in the Woods, and other tales, 1874
Miss Irving's Bible, 1875
Oliver's Oath, and How He Kept It, 1875
The Great Salterns, 1875
Nothing But Leaves, 1875
The Pilot's Daughters, 1875
Brave Seth, 1877
Stories of Girlhood, or the Brook and the River, 1877
Monksbury College: A Tale of Schoolgirl Life, 1878
Faith's Revenge, 1879
The Scarlet Satin Petticoat, 1879
While It Is Day. A New Year's Address to Senior Scholars, 1879
A Story of Crossport, and Other Stories, 1879
Old Anthony's Secret, and Other Stories, 1879
Stepping Stones, a Story of our Inner Life, 1880
Strangers Yet. A Story, 1880
A Child of the Precinct, 1880
Stepping-Stones: A Story of Our Inner Life, 1880
Anna Cavaye; or, the Ugly Princess, 1882
Michaelmas Daisy. A Young Girl's Story, 1882
What's in a Name?, 1883
Miss Stepney's Fortune, 1883
Nelly Channell, 1883
A Woman's Glory, 1883
The Strength of Her Youth, 1884
A Long Lane with a Turning, 1884
When We Two Parted. A Tale, c. 1884
Prudence Winterburn, 1885
Who Is the Enemy? and How He Was Discovered. A tale, 1886
When We Were Girls Together, 1886
The Missing Rubies, 1887
A Son of the Morning, 1887
Thy Heart's Desire. A Story of Girls' Lives, 1888
Miss Willowburn's Offer, 1888
The Vicar of Redcross; Or, Till Death Us Do Part, 1888
Under False Colours, 1889
Where the Dew Falls in London. A Story of a Sanctuary, 1889
Christmas Angels (in verse), 1890
The Family Difficulty: The Story of a Young Samaritan, 1891
Godiva Durleigh, 1891
Where Two Ways Meet, etc., 1891
Drifting Leaves (poems), 1892
My Message (poem), 1892
Voices in the Starlight (poem), 1892
The Love-Dream of Gatty Fenning. A Tale, 1892
Through Pain to Peace, 1892
A Romance Of Lincoln's Inn, 1893
Violets for Faithfulness (verse), 1893
Louie's Married Life, 1894
Katherine's Keys. A Tale, 1896
A Vanished Hand, 1896
Bitter and Sweet. A Story, 1896
Pilgrims of the Night, 1897
'Where Swallows Build' at the Wayback Machine(archived 26 October 2009), Girl's Own Paper, XX, 1898
Lady Dye's Reparation, 1901
Silent Strings, 1904
One of the Few, 1904
A Cluster of Roses, 1906
Shadow and Shine, 1906
When My Ship Comes Home, 1906
Thistle-Down
My Wish for Thee (single poem)
The Lesson of the Water Mill (with Bond Andrews)[5]
Charlotte Mitchell, "Doudney, Sarah (1841–1926)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2005, retrieved 11 July 2008
"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)
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).
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).
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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