Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Born: February 22, 1805, Har­low, Es­sex, Eng­land. Died: August 14, 1848, St. Mar­tin-in-the-Fields, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land, of tu­ber­cu­lo­sis. Buried: Foster Street, near Harlow, Essex, England. Daughter of jour­nal­ist and pol­i­ti­cian Ben­ja­min Flow­er, she mar­ried Wil­liam Bridg­es Adams in 1834. She had hoped to be an ac­tress, but God had other plans for her. Her stage ca­reer was cut short by poor health (though she did get to play Lady Macbeth in 1837), so she turned to writ­ing. Her works in­clude ma­ny mag­a­zine ar­ti­cles; a po­em about ear­ly Christian mar­tyrs called Vi­via Per­petua (1841); The Flock at the Foun­tain (1845), a child­ren’s cat­e­chism; and 13 en­tries in Hymns and An­thems, pub­lished in 1841 by min­is­ter Wil­liam Johnson Fox. Adams at­tended Fox’s South Place Un­i­tar­i­an Church, Fins­bury, Lon­don.