Anna Louisa Walker Coghill

Born: 1836, Kiddermore, Staffordshire, England.

Died: July 7, 1907, Bath, England.

Buried: Fairlight (near Hastings), England.

Pseudonym: Mrs. Harry Coghill.

    In 1857, Anna’s family moved to Canada, where she and her two sisters ran a girls’ school. Anna returned to England in 1863 and worked as a governess and book reviewer. In 1883, she married Harry Coghill and moved to Coghurst Hall, near Hastings, England. Her works include:

• Leaves from the Back­oods (Montréal, Canada: John Lovell, 1861)
• A Canadian Heroine, a Novel (London: Tinsley, 1873)
• Oak and Maple: English and Canadian Verses (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trüber & Co., Ltd., 1890)
• Edited and published the Autobiography and Letters of her cousin, Mrs. Oliphant, 1898

Hymns

1. Work, for the Night Is Coming