Born: March 4, 1794, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Ju­ly 4, 1867, St. Leo­nards-on-Sea, Suss­ex, Eng­land.

Wife of hymn­ist And­rew Reed, Eliz­a­beth worked with her hus­band in ma­ny char­i­ta­ble caus­es. She wrote 20 hymns for The Hymn Book, which he pub­lished in 1842; her other works in­clude:

• Original Tales for Child­ren
• The Mo­ther’s Man­u­al for Train­ing of Her Child­ren, 1865

Sources

Lyrics

1. Gracious Lord, as Thou Hast Bidden
2. I Would Be Thine, O Take My Heart
3. O Do Not Let the Word Depart
4. O That I Could For Ever Dwell
5. O Why Not Tonight?