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The following is a list of women hymnwriters , in order of their year of birth.

Contents

• Pre-1000
• 1000-1100
• 1200-1300
• 1300-1400
• 1500-1600
• 1600-1700
• 1700-1750
• 1750-1800
• 1800-1850
• 1850-1900
• 1900-1950
• 1950-present
• References

Pre-1000

• Kassia the Nun (b. Constantinople, c. 805-810 - d. Casos, 867) ^[1]

1000-1100

• Heloise (other names not known) (b. 1090–97; d. 16 May 1163/4) ^[2]
• Hildegard of Bingen (b. Bermersheim vor der Höhe, 1098, d. Bingen am Rhein, 17 September 1179)

1200-1300

• Mechthild of Magdeburg (ca. 1207 - ca. 1282) ^[3]

1300-1400

• Julian of Norwich (1342 - ca. 1416) ^[4]

1500-1600

• Elisabeth von Meseritz Cruciger, (b. Pomerania, ca.1500; d. Wittenberg 2 May, 1535)
• Teresa of Avila (b. Gotarrendura, Avila, Spain, 28 March 1515; d. Alba de Tormes, 4 October 1582) ^[5]
• Christine of Hesse (b. Kassel, 29 June 1543 – d. Kiel, 13 May 1604)

1600-1700

• Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (1637 – 1706)
• Jeanne Marie Guyon (b. Montargis, France, 16 April 1648; d. 9 January 1717) ^[6]
• Elizabeth Singer Rowe (b. Ilchester, Somerset, 11 September 1674; d. Frome, Somerset, 20 February 1737) ^[7]
• Catharina von Schlegel (1697 - after 1768)

1700-1750

• Anna (Schindler) Dober (b. Kunewald, near Fulneck, Moravia, 9 April 1713; d. Marienborn, near Büdingen, Hesse, 12 December 1739) ^[8]
• Anna Nitschmann (b. 24 November 1715; d. 21 May 1760) ^[9]
• Anne Steele (1717 – 1778)
• Henriette Luise von Hayn (b. 22 May 1724; d. 27 August 1782) ^[10]
• Birgitte Katerine Boye (b. Gentofte, Denmark, 7 March 1742; d. 17 October 1824) ^[11]
• Anna Letitita Barbauld (b. Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, 20 June 1743; d. Stoke Newington, London, 9 March 1825) ^[12]

1750-1800

• Joanna Southcott (b. Taleford, near Ottery St Mary, Devon, 25 April 1750; d. London, 27 December 1814) ^[13]
• Judith Sargent Murray (b. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1 May 1751; d. Natchez, Mississippi, 9 June 1820) ^[14]
• Susanna Harrison (b. 1752; d. Ipswich, 3 August 1784) ^[15]
• Helen Maria Williams (b. London, 17 June 1759; d. Paris, 15 December 1827) ^[16]
• Harriet Auber (b. Spitalfields, London, 4 August 1773; d. Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, 20 Jan 1862) ^[17]
• Ann Griffiths (b. Llanfihangel, Montgomeryshire, April 1776; d. Llanfihangel, August 1805) ^[18]
• Ann Taylor Gilbert (b. Islington, London, 30 January 1782, d. Nottingham, 20 December 1866) ^[19]
• Phoebe Hinsdale Brown (b. Canaan, New York State, 1 May 1783; d. Henry, Marshall County, Illinois, 10 October 1861) ^[20]
• Jane Taylor (b. Islington, 23 September 1783, d. Ongar, Essex, 13 April 1824) ^[21]
• Charlotte Elliott (1789 – 1871)
• Mary (MacDougall) Macdonald (b. Ardtun, Isle of Mull, 1789; d. Ardtun, 21 May 1872) ^[22]
• Sarah White Livermore (b. Wilton, New Hampshire, 20 July 1789; d. Wilton, 3 July 1874) ^[23]
• Penina Moise (b. Charleston, South Carolina, 23 April 1797; d. Charleston, SC, 13 September 1880) ^[24]
• Abigail Bradley Hyde (b. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 28 September 1799; d. Andover, Connecticut, 7 April 1872) ^[25]
• Henrietta Joan Fry (b. Bristol, 6 December 1799; d. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 1860) ^[26]

1800-1850

• Margaret Mackay (b. Inverness, Scotland, 1802; d. 5 January 1887) ^[27]
• Sarah Flower Adams (b. Great Harlow, Essex, 22 February 1805; d. London, 14 August 1848) ^[28]
• Emily Bowes (b. London, England, 10 Nov. 1806; d. Islington, London, 10 Feb. 1857) ^[29]
• Harriet Burn McKeever (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 August 1807; d. Chester, Pennsylvania, 7 February 1886 or 1887) ^[30]
• Margaret Cockburn-Campbell (b. 1808; d. Alphington, near Exeter, Devonshire, 6 February 1841) ^[31]
• Eliza Westbury (b. Hackleton, Northamptonshire, 1808 (Baptized 22 May); d. 11 April 1828) ^[32]
• Julia Anne Elliott (b. Hallsteads, Watermillock, Ullswater, 1809; d. England, 24 October 1841) ^[33]
• Anne Houlditch Shepherd (b. Cowes, Isle of Wight, 11 September 1809; d. Blackheath, Kent, 7 January 1857) ^[34]
• Jane Crewdson (b. Perran-ar-worthal, Cornwall, 22 October 1809; d. Whalley Range, Manchester, 14 September 1863) ^[35]
• Catharine H. Esling (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12 April 12, 1812; d. Philadelphia, 6 April 1897) ^[36]
• Emma Leslie Toke (b. Holywood, near Belfast, 9 August 1812; d. Ryde, Isle of Wight, 29 September 1878) ^[37]
• Lady Georgiana Charlotte (née Leveson-Gower) Fullerton (b. Tixhall Hall, Staffordshire, 23 September 1812; d. Bournemouth, Hampshire, 19 January 1885) ^[38]
• Mary (Bowly) Peters (b. Cirencester, 17 April 1813; d. Clifton, Bristol, 29 July 1856) ^[39]
• Jemima Luke (b. London, 19 August 1813; d. Newport, Isle of Wight, 2 February 1906) ^[40]
• Mary Duncan (b. Kelso, 26 April 1814; d. Cleish, Kinross-shire, 5 January 1840) ^[41]
• Lucy Akerman (b. Wrentham, Massachusetts, 21 February 1816; d. Providence, Rhode Island, 21 February 1874) ^[42]
• Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817 – 1878)
• Elvina M. Hall (1818-1889)
• Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (b. Portland, Maine, 26 October 1818; d. Dorset, Vermont, 13 August 1878) ^[43]
• Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 – 1895)
• Maria Frances Anderson (b. Paris, France, 30 January 1819; d. Rosemont, Pennsylvania, U.S., 13 October 1895) ^[44]
• Julia Ward Howe (b. New York, 27 May 1819; d. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 17 October 1910) ^[45]
• Mary Fawler Maude (b. London, 25 October 1819; d. Overton, Cheshire, 30 July 1913) ^[46]
• Fanny Crosby (1820 – 1915)
• Anne Thorton Brontë (b. near Bradford, Yorkshire, 17 January 1820; d. Scarborough, Yorkshire, 28 May 1849) ^[47]
• Eliza F. Morris (b. London, 1821; d. Malvern Link, Worcestershire, 1874) ^[48]
• Eliza Scudder (b. Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1821; d. Salem, Massachusetts, 1896)
• Charlotte Maria Tucker (b. Friern Hatch, Barnet, 8 May 1821; d Amritsar, India, 2 December 1893) ^[49]
• Martha Matilda Stockton (b. Washington, North Carolina, 12 June 1821; d. Camden, New Jersey, 18 October 1885) ^[50]
• Anna Laetitia Waring (1823 – 1910)
• Anne Ross Cundell Cousin (b. Hull, Yorkshire, 27 April 1824; d. Edinburgh, 6 December 1906) ^[51]
• Adelaide Anne Procter (b. London, 30 October 1825; d. London, 2 February 1864) ^[52]
• Julie Hausmann (b. Riga, Latvia, 7 March 1826; d. Wösso (now Võsu, Estonia), 15 August 1901) ^[53]
• Mary Shekleton (b., place and date unknown, 1827; d. Dublin, 28 September 1883) ^[54]
• Anna Bartlett Warner (b. New York, 31 August 1827; d. Constitution Island, 22 January 1915) ^[55]
• Emma Frances Shuttleworth Bevan (b. Oxford, 25 September 1827; d. Cannes, France, 15 March 1909) ^[56]
• Catherine Winkworth (1827 – 1878)
• Emily Sullivan Oakey (b. Albany, New York, U.S., 1829; d. Albany, 1883)
• Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)
• Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane (b. Edinburgh, 18 June 1830; d. Melrose, Roxburghshire, 19 February 1869) ^[57]
• Adelaide Thrupp (b. London, 1831; d. Guildford, Surrey, 1908) ^[58]
• Mary Bynon Reese (b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1832; d. Everett, Washington, February 8, 1908) ^[59]
• Lina Sandell-Berg (b. 3 October 1832; d. 27 July 1903) ^[60]
• Mary Ann Sidebotham (b. London, 31 July 1833; d. Ryde, Isle of Wight, 20 February 1913) ^[61]
• Marianne Farningham (b. Farningham, Kent, 17 Dec 1834; d. Barmouth, Merioneth, Wales, 16 March 1909) ^[62]
• Anne Louise Ashley-Greenstreet (17 February 1835 – unknown)
• Eleonore (née Gräfin [Countess] zu Stolberg-Werningerode Reuss (b. Gedern am Vogelsberg, Hesse, 20 February 1835; d. Schloss Ilsenberg, near Bad Harzburg, 18 September 1903) ^[63]
• Annie Sherwood Hawks (b. Hoosick, New York, 25 or 28 May 1835 or 1836; d. Bennington, Vermont, 3 January 1918) ^[64]
• Frances Ridley Havergal (1836 – 1879)
• Annie Louisa Coghill (b. Brewood, Staffordshire, 23 June 1836; d. Bath, Somerset, 7 July 1907) ^[65]
• E. S. Elliott (b. Brighton, Sussex, 22 July 1836; d. London, 3 August 1897) ^[66]
• Elizabeth Wordsworth (b. Harrow, Middlesex, 22 June 1840; d. Oxford, 30 November 1932) ^[67]
• Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841-1913)
• Mary "May" Butler (b. 1841, Langar, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire; d. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 6 January 1916) ^[68]
• Ella Sophia Armitage (b. Liverpool, 3 March 1841; d. Leeds, 20 March 1931) ^[69]
• Clara H. Scott (b. Elk Grove, Cook County, Illinois, 3 December 1841; d. Dubuque, Iowa, 21 June 1897) ^[70]
• Isabella Stephana Stevenson (b. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 31 July 1843; d. Cheltenham, 28 April 1890) ^[71]
• Lady Victoria Cecil Evans-Freke Carbury (b. 6 November 1843; d. 22 February 1932) ^[72]
• Annie Herbert Barker (b. Leon, New York State, 1844; d. San Rafael, California, 21 January 1932) ^[73]
• Constance Headlam Coote (b. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 30 December 1844; d. Tunbridge Wells, 16 August 1936) ^[74]
• Harriet Reynolds Krauth Spaeth (b. Baltimore, Maryland, 21 September 1845; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 May 1925) ^[75]
• Jean Sophia Pigott (b. Leixlip, Ireland, 1845; d. Leixlip, Ireland, 1882) ^[76]
• Bessie Porter Head (b. 1849/1850, exact date unknown; d. Wimbledon, Surrey, 28 June 1936) ^[77]
• Caroline Maria Noel (b. Teston, Kent, England, 10 April 1817; d. St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England, 7 December 1877) ^[78]
• Mary A. Kidder (b. Boston, Massachusetts, March 16, 1820; d. Chelsea, Massachusetts, November 25, 1905) ^[79]

1850-1900

• Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 June 1851; d. Philadelphia, 24 April 1920) ^[80]
• Ellen Lakshmi Goreh (b. Benares (now Varanasi), India, 11 Sept 1853; d. Cawnpore (Kanpur), 1937) ^[81]
• Carrie Elizabeth Ellis Breck (b. Walden, Vermont, 22 January 1855; d. Portland, Oregon, 27 March 1934) ^[82]
• Geneviève Mary Irons (b. Brompton, London, 28 December 1855; d. Eastbourne, Sussex, 13 December 1928) ^[83]
• Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (b. London, 4 October 1858; d. London, 15 June 1932) ^[84]
• Eleanor Henrietta Hull (b. Cheetham, Manchester, 15 Jan 1860; d. Wimbledon, Surrey, 13 Jan 1935) ^[85]
• Ada Rundall Greenaway (1861-1937) ^[86]
• Ada Ruth Habershon (b. Marylebone, London, 8 January 1861; d. London, 1 February 1918) ^[87]
• Lelia Morris (b. Pennsville, Ohio, 15 April 1862; d. Auburn, Ohio, 23 July 1929) ^[88]
• Adelaide Addison Pollard (b. Bloomfield, Iowa, 27 November 1862; d. New York City, 20 December 1934) ^[89]
• Jessie Adams (b. Ipswich, Suffolk, 9 September 1863; d. York, 15 July 1954) ^[90]
• Harriet (Hattie) Pierson (b. Canaan, New York, 1865; d. Sagaponack (a village in the Town of Southampton), New York, 25 February 1921) ^[91]
• Civilla Durfee Holden Martin (b. Jordan, Nova Scotia, 21 August 1866; d. Atlanta, Georgia, 9 March 1948) ^[92]
• Amy Carmichael (b. Millisle, Co Down, Ireland (later Northern Ireland), 16 December 1867; d. Tirunelveli, India, 18 January 1951) ^[93]
• Laura L. Copenhaver (b. Columbus, Texas, 29 August 1868; d. Rosemont, Marion, Virginia, 18 December 1940) ^[94]
• Alda Marguerite Milner-Barry (b. Scothorne (now Scothern), Lincolnshire, 18 August 1875; d. Weston-super-Mare, 15 April 1940) ^[95]
• Frances Whitmarsh Wile (b. Bristol Centre, New York, 2 December 1878; d. Rochester, New York, 31 July 1939) ^[96]
• Mary E. Byrne (b. Dublin, Ireland, 2 July 1880; d. Dublin, 19 January 1931) ^[97]
• Eleanor Farjeon (b. Westminster, London, 13 February 1881; d. Hampstead, London, 5 June 1965) ^[98]
• Lucie Eddie Campbell-Williams (b. Duck Hill, Mississippi, 30 April 1885; d. Nashville, Tennessee, 3 January 1963) ^[99]
• Anna Bernardine Dorthy Hoppe (b. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 May 1889; d. Milwaukee, 2 August 1941) ^[100]
• Mary Susannah Edgar (b. Sundridge, Ontario, 23 May 1889; d. Toronto, 17 September 1973) ^[101]
• Georgia Harkness (b. Harkness, New York (the town was named after her grandfather), 21 April 1891) ^[102]
• Katherine Kennicott Davis (b. St Joseph, Missouri, 25 June 1892; d. Concord, Massachusetts, 20 April 1980) ^[103]
• Maria Ferschl (b. Melk, Austria, 18 March 1895; d. Saulgau, Baden-Württemberg, 10 April 1982) ^[104]
• Avis Christiansen (1895-1985) ^[105]
• Helen Kim (b. Inchon, Korea, 27 February 1899; d. Seoul, Republic of Korea (South Korea), 10 February 1970) ^[106]

1900-1950

• Miriam (Leyrer) Drury (b. Santa Ana, California, 1900; d. Pasadena, California, 1985) ^[107]
• Ruth Carter (b. Clapton, London, 22 August 1900; d. Clacton, Essex, 4 November 1982) ^[108]
• Anastasia Van Burkalow (b. Buchanan, New York, 16 March 1911; d. Wantage, New Jersey, 14 January 2004) ^[109]
• Maria Luise Thurmair (b. Bozen, Süd Tirol, Austria (now Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy), 27 September 1912; d. Germering, München, 24 October 2005) ^[110]
• Pilar Manalo Danao (b. Santa Ana, Manila, 10 March 1914: d. 26 November 1987)
• Honor Mary Thwaites (b. Young, New South Wales, Australia, 21 September 1914; d. Canberra, 24 November 1993) ^[111]
• Anna Martina Gottschick (b. Dresden, 29 Sept 1914; d. Kassel. 8 Nov 1995) ^[112]
• Margaret Clarkson (b. Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada, 8 June 1915; d. Toronto, 17 March 2008) ^[113]
• Olive Adelaide (Wise) Spannaus (b. St Louis, Missouri, 23 January 1916; d. Seattle, Washington, 10 May 2018) ^[114]
• Audrey Mae Mieir (b. Leechburg, Pennsylvania, 12 May 1916; d. 3 November 1996) ^[115]
• Doris Akers (b. Brookfield, Missouri, 21 May 1922; d. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 26 July 1995) ^[116]
• Estelle White (b. South Shields, County Durham (now in Tyne and Wear), 4 December 1925; d. 9 February 2011) ^[117]
• Alice Parker (b. Boston, 16 December 1925) ^[118]
• Jane McAfee Parker Huber (b. Jinan, China, 24 October 1926; d. Hanover, Indiana, 15 November 2008) ^[119]
• Mary Louise Enigson VanDyke (b. Rochester, Pennsylvania, 28 Feb 1927) ^[120]
• Catherine Cameron (b. St John, New Brunswick, Canada, 27 March 1927) ^[121]
• Lois Clara Kroehler (b. Saint Louis, Missouri, 9 September 1927; d. Bremerton, Washington, 3 August 2019) ^[122]
• Dosia Carlson (b. January 11, 1930, Huron, South Sakota; d. January 13, 2021) ^[123]
• Cecily Taylor (b. Coulsdon, Surrey, 25 March 1930) ^[124]
• Judith Beatrice O'Neill (b. Melbourne, Australia, 3 June 1930) ^[125]
• Natalie Sleeth (1930-2002)
• Shirley Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 31 March 1931; d. Wellington, NZ, 25 January 2020) ^[126]
• Jocelyn Mary Marshall (b. Morrinsville, Waikato, New Zealand, 15 September 1931) ^[127]
• Carol Owens (b. El Reno, Oklahoma, 30 October 1931) ^[128]
• Marian Collihole (. Pontypridd, Wales, 14 August 1933 ^[129]
• Dottie Rambo (b. Madisonville, Kentucky, 2 March 1934; d. Mount Vernon, Missouri, 11 May 2008) ^[130]
• Eluned (Cornish) Harrison (b. Cardiff, South Wales, 19 December 1934) ^[131]
• Jill Jenkins (b. Ealing, west London, 14 October 1937) ^[132]
• Miriam Therese Winter (b. Passaic, New Jersey, 14 June 1938) ^[133]
• Delores Dufner (b. near Buxton, North Dakota, 20 February 1939) ^[134]
• Alison Margaret Robertson (b. Glasgow, 22 February 1940) ^[135]
• Claire Cloninger (b. Lafayette, Louisiana, 12 August 1942; d. 15 August 2019) ^[136]
• Simei Monteiro (b. Belém, Brazil, 28 December 1943) ^[137]
• Ruth C. Duck (b. Washington, DC, 21 November 1944) ^[138]
• Anna Briggs (b. Newcastle upon Tyne, 15 February 1947) ^[139]

1950-present

• Kathy Galloway (b. Dumfries, Scotland, 6 August 1952) ^[140]
• Marnie Barrell (b. Ashburton, New Zealand, 30 December 1952) ^[141]
• Susan Palo Cherwien (b. Ashtabula, Ohio, 4 May 1954, d. 28 December 2021) ^{[142] [143]}
• Mary Louise Bringle (b. Ripley, Tennessee, 31 July 1953) ^[144]
• Mary Yoke Thue Gan (. Jasin, Melaka, Malaysia, 14 November 1954) ^[145]
• Sylvia Dunstan (b. Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, 26 May 1955; d. 25 July 1993) ^[146]
• Elizabeth Smith (b. Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 27 February 1956) ^[147]
• Maggi Eleanor Dawn (b. 1959) ^[148]
• Geraldine Latty (b. 1963) ^[149]
• Darlene Joyce Zscech (b. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 September 1965) ^[150]
• Kristyn Getty (born 1980)
• Emma Turl (b. 1946) ^[151]

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