Fanny Crosby — Biographies and Information
 Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby (1820-1915),
American hymn writer and poetess who wrote over 8,000 hymns.
Once a preacher sympathetically remarked, "I
think it is a great pity that the Master did not give you
sight when He showered so many other gifts upon you."
She replied quickly, "Do you know that if at birth I had
been able to make one petition, it would have been that I
should be born blind?" "Why?" asked the surprised
minister. "Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior!" |
- Fanny Crosby. Biographical sketch.
- Frances Jane Van Alstyne. Biographical sketch.
- Frances Jane Crosby. Biographical sketch.
- Miss Fanny J. Crosby. Biographical sketch.
- Frances Jane Crosby, 1823-1915. Biographical sketch.
- Fanny J. Crosby. Short biography.
- Frances Jane Van Alstyne.
- "Safe in the Arms of Jesus". Fanny Crosby's life and hymns.
- Frances Jane Van Alstyne (Fanny Crosby). Short biography.
- "Speed Away!" - Fanny Crosby.
- Fanny Crosby and Her Hymns.
- Fanny Crosby (1820-1915).
- Fanny Crosby. Short biography.
- Frances J. Crosby: Reminiscences.
- Frances Jane Crosby.
- The Life and Ministry of Fanny Crosby.
- Fanny Crosby, Famous Blind Hymn Writer. Biography for young people.
- Fanny Crosby: Titles of Some of Her Familiar Hymns.
- Fanny Crosby Gravesite. Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
- Photograph of Fanny Crosby and Ira Sankey. PDF
- eBook about Fanny Crosby.
Writings:
Handfuls of Purpose - Poems by Fanny Crosby
Marriage and Family:
In 1858, Fanny married a fellow teacher at the New York Institution
of the Blind, the blind musician and composer Alexander Van Alstyne.
Their only child, a daughter named Frances, died as an infant.
Fanny and Van had been married 44 years when he died in 1902.
Recommended Books:
Fanny
J. Crosby: An Autobiography. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008. Originally published in 1906 as Memoirs of Eighty Years.
Her
Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby by Edith L. Blumhofer. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, ©2005.
Recommended DVD:
The Fanny Crosby Story DVD. Panmedia Entertainment Corp., 2004. Distributed by Vision Video, Worcester, PA.
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