ADELAIDE ANN PROCTER BIOGRAPHY

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANN (1825-1864). —Poetess, eldest dau. of Bryan W.P. ( q.v. ). Many of her poems were first pub. in Household Words and All the Year Round , and afterwards coll. under the title of Legends and Lyrics (1858), of which many ed. appeared. In 1851 Miss P. became a Roman Catholic. She took much interest in social questions affecting women. She wrote the well-known songs, Cleansing Fires and The Lost Chord , and among her many hymns are, I do not ask, O Lord, that Life may be , and My God, I thank Thee who hast made .