A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Procter, Adelaide Ann

by John William Cousin

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.