Anna Letitia Waring (April 19, 1823

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 – May 10, 1910

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) was a Welsh

Welsh people

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 poet and hymn-writer.

She was born at Plas-y-Felin, Neath

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, the daughter of Elijah Waring

Elijah Waring

Elijah Waring , was an Anglo-Welsh writer.Born at Alton, Hampshire, Waring was the son of a Jeremiah Waring, and settled in South Wales in about 1810. He founded and English-language periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany, at Swansea in 1813, and moved to Neath in the following...

 (d. 1857). Her family were Quakers

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, but she became an Anglican and was baptised into the Church of England

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 in 1842, at Winchester. Literary interests were fostered by members of her family as her uncle Samuel Miller Waring (also an Anglican) and her father Elijah both published works of literature. She learned Hebrew

Hebrew language

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 in order to study the Old Testament

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 in the original.

In 1850, Anna published her first work, Hymns and Meditations. Her best-known hymns include "Father, I know that all my life", "Go not far from me, O my Strength", and "My heart is resting, O my God". She became involved in philanthropic work, particularly as a supporter of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. She died unmarried in Clifton, Bristol

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.