Anna Louisa Walker Coghill

1836-1907

Born: June 23, 1836, Kid­der­more, Staf­ford­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Ju­ly 7, 1907, Bath, Eng­land.

Buried: Fair­light (near Hast­ings), Eng­land.

Pseudonym: Mrs. Har­ry Cog­hill.

Sources

• Julian, p. 1622

In 1857, Anna’s fam­i­ly moved to Ca­na­da. They lived first at Pointe-Lévy and then moved in 1858 to Sarnia, where her father continued to worked for the Grand Trunk Railway. Around that time, Anna and two sis­ters, Isabella and Frances, ran a girls’ school. An­na re­turned to Eng­land in 1863 and worked as a gov­er­ness and book re­view­er. In 1883, she mar­ried Harry Cog­hill and moved to Cog­hurst Hall, near Hast­ings, Eng­land. Her works in­clude:

• Leaves from the Back­woods (Montré­al, Can­a­da: John Lo­vell, 1861)
• A Canadian Her­o­ine, a No­vel (Lon­don: Tins­ley, 1873)
• Oak and Maple: Eng­lish and Ca­na­di­an Vers­es (Lon­don: Ke­gan Paul, Trench, Trü­ber & Co., Ltd., 1890)
• Edited and pub­lished the Au­to­bi­o­graphy and Let­ters of her cou­sin, Mrs. Ol­i­phant, 1898

Hymns

1. Work, for the Night Is Com­ing

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