Frances Elizabeth Cox
1864–1897 · England · Romantic
Oxford translator of German hymns, best known for 'Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won' and 'Who Are These Like Stars Appearing'.
Life
Frances Elizabeth Cox was born in 1812, the daughter of the Oxford academic George Valentine Cox, and lived in Oxford all her life. She never married and was buried at St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford. She died in 1897.
As a Hymn Writer
Her Sacred Hymns from the German (1841) contained 49 translations with notes on the German authors; a revised and enlarged edition, Hymns from the German (1864), had 56. Her best-known translations are 'Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won' (Gellert) and 'Who Are These Like Stars Appearing' (Schenck). Like Catherine Winkworth and Jane Borthwick, she helped bring German hymnody into English worship.
In The Lutheran Hymnal and Lutheran Service Book (5)
- Our Blessed Savior Seven Times Spoke
- Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won
- Lo, God to Heaven Ascendeth
- One Thing's Needful; Lord, This Treasure
- How Lovely Shines the Morning Star
Sources: Wikipedia, 'Frances Elizabeth Cox'.