Elizabeth Prentiss - Links
Background and supplementary material
Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson
Encyclopedia Britannica entry
Maine Authors
Brief biography and a bibliography
Cyber Hymnal
Biographical statistics, portrait, partial bibliography
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Brief biographical entry (19th century) of Prentiss and her husband
Bibliography
Stepping Heavenward site: complete bibiography; also
photographs of various editions of selected books;
the homepage has a photograph of Prentiss's home
as background
Seven Sayings from the Cross--V
Brief reflection on Prentiss's life (incorporated into part five of a theological series)
Prentiss Pond
Pond in Bennington County, Vermont, apparently named for or by Elizabeth and George Prentiss --
and a link to "a digitized version of a USGS topographic map" and "a black-and-white, aerial
photographic image map" of same
Etexts and reviews
Stepping Heavenward
Plain text at Gutenberg
Review of Stepping Heavenward
Two recent brief reviews and excerpt from chapter 1
Hymns
More Love to Thee
History of the hymn from Kenneth W. Osbeck's One Hundred and One Hymn Stories
More Love to Thee
Another brief history of the hymn, this one from William H. Reynolds' "History of Hymns" column
More Love to Thee
Clip sung by Jim Bradford
More Love to Thee
Words (four verses) and midi file music
More Love to Thee
Words and music at Cyber hymnal; also has a portrait of Prentiss and of Doane (the composer)
and a link to the score
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