Born: March 24, 1821, Black­burn, Lan­ca­shire, Eng­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 30, 1880, St George’s Hos­pi­tal, Hyde Park, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Buried: High­gate Cem­e­tery, Lon­don, Eng­land. James Burns, John Cal­kin, Chris­ti­na Ros­set­ti and William Monk lie nearby.

Daughter of a wine mer­chant, Jean­ette was or­phaned while young, and be­came the “be­loved in­mate” of the homes of her un­cle and aunt Ban­nis­ter and Mary Jane Ec­cles, at Park Place, Black­burn, and Gold­en Hill, Ley­land. Lat­er she lived with her cou­sin, Sar­ah Alice As­ton, at Dean’s Yard, West­min­ster. She event­u­al­ly had an ac­ci­dent which left her a life­long in­val­id, giv­ing her much time to write po­ems and hymns. Her works in­clude:

• Woodsorrel; or, Leaves from a Re­tired Home
• Sunshine and Sha­dow (Lon­don: Hunt, 1873)

Sources

Hymns

1. Hosanna, Loud Ho­san­na
2. I Think of Thee, O Sav­ior
3. Lo, to Us a Child Is Born
4. Thou Bidd’st Us Seek Thee Ear­ly
5. We Praise Thee in the Morn­ing
6. When from Egypt’s House of Bond­age