by Humboles » Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:32 pm
J(oyce) Anstruther, aka Jan Struther [1901-53], is remembered both for her novel Mrs. Miniver which won 6 Oscars as a film with Grier Garson in the eponymous role, and because she authored several hymns for children, including Lord of All Hopefulness, When a Knight Won His Spurs (my favourite), and this one, Daisies are Our Silver. She was apparently "warm and witty" and these uplifting songs to some extent belied the depression their author endured in her late forties. The hymns resulted from an approach by Canon Percy Dearmer of Westminster Abbey, who was Words Editor of the enlarged edition of "Songs of Praise" published in 1931 by OUP. She was both a church-goer and an agnostic, apparently, and died of the complications of breast cancer at only 53. ... Keith H.
J(oyce) Anstruther, aka Jan Struther [1901-53], is remembered both for her novel [i]Mrs. Miniver[/i] which won 6 Oscars as a film with Grier Garson in the eponymous role, and because she authored several hymns for children, including [i]Lord of All Hopefulness[/i], [i]When a Knight Won His Spurs[/i] (my favourite), and this one, [i]Daisies are Our Silver[/i]. She was apparently "warm and witty" and these uplifting songs to some extent belied the depression their author endured in her late forties. The hymns resulted from an approach by Canon Percy Dearmer of Westminster Abbey, who was Words Editor of the enlarged edition of "Songs of Praise" published in 1931 by OUP. She was both a church-goer and an agnostic, apparently, and died of the complications of breast cancer at only 53. ... Keith H.