Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
Overview
Sarah Fuller Flower was born at High Street, Old Harlow
Old Harlow
Old Harlow is the historic part of the new town and district of Harlow, Essex in England.Old Harlow is situated in the North-East area of the town and is the oldest area of the town. Old Harlow pre-dates the first written record in the Domesday Book of 1086, so it not sure when the town first come...
, Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
, younger daughter of Benjamin Flower
Benjamin Flower
Benjamin Flower was an English radical journalist and political writer, a vocal opponent of his country's involvement in the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars.-Life:...
, editor and the sister of composer Eliza Flower
Eliza Flower
Eliza Flower was a British musician and composer. In addition to her own work, Flower became known for her friendships including those with William Johnson Fox, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor.-Biography:...
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In 1834 Sarah married William Bridges Adams
William Bridges Adams
William Bridges Adams was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer.-Overview:He is best known for his patented Adams Axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate...
, polemicist and railway engineer. They lived at Loughton
Loughton
Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill...
, Essex, where there is a blue plaque
Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker....
to the couple. Her longest work is Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem (1841), having as its subject the life of the early Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
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Quotations
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,Alike they’re needful to the flower;And joys and tears alike are sentTo give the soul fit nourishment.As comes to me or cloud or sun,Father! thy will, not mine, be done. 
"He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower".
Once have a priest for enemy, good byeTo peace.
Vivia Perpetua, Act iii. Sc. ii.
Though like the wanderer,The sun gone down,Darkness be over me,My rest a stone;Yet in my dreams I'd beNearer, my God, to Thee.
Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee!E’en though it be a cross That raiseth me,Still all my song shall be,Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee!